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(1) In exercising the jurisdiction conferred upon it by or under this Act the Tribunal shall have the powers of a civil court for the purpose of taking evidence on oath, affirmation or affidavit, or summoning and enforcing the attendance of witnesses, of compelling discovery and the production of documents and material objects, requisitioning any public record or any copy thereof from any court or office, issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses or documents, and for such other purpose as may be prescribed 1[including the power to grant stay and any other powers of a Civil Court] which may be vested in Tribunal; and the Tribunal shall be deemed to be a Civil Court for all the purposes of sections 195, 480 and 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898)2 and its proceedings shall be judicial proceedings within the meaning of sections 193, 219 and 228 of the Indian Penal Code (XLV of 1860). 3[(1A) The provisions of sections 4, 5, 12 and 14 of the Limitation Act, 1963 (36 of 1963), shall apply to the filing of every appeal or application made to the Tribunal, under this Act.] (2) In the case of any affidavit to be filed 4[any officer authorised by the Tribunal or by the President] in this behalf may administer the oath to the deponent. 5[(3) The State Government shall from time to time place at the disposal of the Tribunal, such officers and other staff to assist the Tribunal as the State Government may from time to time determine. The remuneration and other conditions of service of the officers and other staff shall be such as may from time to time be determined by the State Government. (3A) The term of office and other conditions of service of the President and the members of the Tribunal shall be such as may be regulated by rules made under section 46]. (4) Subject to the provisions of this Act and to the previous approval of the State Government, the President may make regulations for regulating the practice and procedure of the Tribunal, including the award of costs by the Tribunal, the levy of any process fee, 6[filing fee or copying or translation fees] (including provisions for recovery thereof in the form of court fee stamps) the right of appearance before the Tribunal, the place or places of its sittings, the disposal by the Tribunal of any proceedings before it notwithstanding that in the course thereof there has been a change in the persons sitting as members of the Tribunal and generally for the effective exercise of its powers and discharge of its functions under this Act. (5) The regulations made under this section shall be published in the Official Gazette. (6) All orders passed by the Tribunal shall be executed in the same manner in which similar order if passed by the State Government, could have been executed. (7) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Bombay Court-fees Act, 1959 (Bom. XXXVI of 1959) every appeal or application made to the Tribunal shall bear a Court-fee stamp of one rupee if the value of the property is ten thousand rupees or less and of two rupees if such value exceeds ten thousand rupees.
<span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(<i>1</i>) In exercising the jurisdiction conferred upon it by or under this Act the Tribunal shall have the powers of a civil court for the purpose of taking evidence on oath, affirmation or affidavit, or summoning and enforcing the attendance of witnesses, of compelling discovery and the production of documents and material objects, requisitioning any public record or any copy thereof from any court or office, issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses or documents, and for such other purpose as may be prescribed <sup>1</sup>[including the power to grant stay and any other powers of a Civil Court] which may be vested in Tribunal; and the Tribunal shall be deemed to be a Civil Court for all the purposes of sections 195, 480 and 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898)<sup>2</sup> and its proceedings shall be judicial proceedings within the meaning of sections 193, 219 and 228 of the Indian Penal Code (XLV of 1860).<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><sup>3</sup>[(<i>1A</i>) The provisions of sections 4, 5, 12 and 14 of the Limitation Act, 1963 (36 of 1963), shall apply to the filing of every appeal or application made to the Tribunal, under this Act.]<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(<i>2</i>) In the case of any affidavit to be filed <sup>4</sup>[any officer authorised by the Tribunal or by the President] in this behalf may administer the oath to the deponent.<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><sup>5</sup>[(<i>3</i>) The State Government shall from time to time place at the disposal of the Tribunal, such officers and other staff to assist the Tribunal as the State Government may from time to time determine. The remuneration and other conditions of service of the officers and other staff shall be such as may from time to time be determined by the State Government.<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(<i>3A</i>) The term of office and other conditions of service of the President and the members of the Tribunal shall be such as may be regulated by rules made under section 46].<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(<i>4</i>) Subject to the provisions of this Act and to the previous approval of the State Government, the President may make regulations for regulating the practice and procedure of the Tribunal, including the award of costs by the Tribunal, the levy of any process fee, <sup>6</sup>[filing fee or copying or translation fees] (including provisions for recovery thereof in the form of court fee stamps) the right of appearance before the Tribunal, the place or places of its sittings, the disposal by the Tribunal of any proceedings before it notwithstanding that in the course thereof there has been a change in the persons sitting as members of the Tribunal and generally for the effective exercise of its powers and discharge of its functions under this Act.<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(<i>5</i>) The regulations made under this section shall be published in the <i>Official Gazette</i>.<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(<i>6</i>) All orders passed by the Tribunal shall be executed in the same manner in which similar order if passed by the State Government, could have been executed.<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(<i>7</i>) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Bombay Court-fees Act, 1959 (Bom. XXXVI of 1959) every appeal or application made to the Tribunal shall bear a Court-fee stamp of one rupee if the value of the property is ten thousand rupees or less and of two rupees if such value exceeds ten thousand rupees.<br>