Admission or rejection of claims.

§20

Summary

(1) After examining the claims with reference to the priorities set out in the Schedule, the Commissioner shall fix a date on or before which every claimant shall file the proof of his claim. (2) Not less than fourteen day's notice of the date fixed shall be given by advertisement in one issue of such daily newspaper in the English language, one issue of such daily newspaper in the Marathi language and in one issue of such daily newspaper in such other regional language as the Commissioner may consider suitable, and every such notice shall call upon the claimant to file the proof of his claim with the Commissioner within the period specified in the advertisement. (3) Every claimant who fails to file the proof of his claim within the period specified by the Commissioner shall be excluded from the disbursements made by the Commissioner. (4) The Commissioner shall, after such investigation as may, in his opinion, be necessary and after giving the proprietors an opportunity of refuting the claims and after giving the claimant a reasonable opportunity of being heard, admit or reject, by order in writing, the claim in whole or in part. (5) The Commissioner shall have the power to regulate his own procedure in all matters arising out of the discharge of his functions, including the place or places at which he may hold his sittings and shall, for the purpose of making an investigation under this Act, have the same powers as are vested in a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (V of 1908), while trying a suit, in respect of the following matters, namely :- (a) the summoning and enforcing the attendance of any witness and examining him on oath ; (b) the discovery and production of any document or other material object producible as evidence ; (c) the reception of evidence on affidavits ; (d) the issuing of any commission for the examination of witnesses. (6) Any investigation before the Commissioner shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of sections 193 and 228 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (XLV of 1860), and the Commissioner shall be deemed to be a civil court for the purposes of section 195 and Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (II of 1974). (7) A claimant, who is dissatisfied with the decision of the Commissioner, may prefer an appeal against such decision to the principal civil court of original jurisdiction within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the registered office of the proprietors is situated : Provided that, where a person who is a Judge of a High Court is appointed to be the Commissioner, such appeal shall lie to the High Court of Bombay and such appeal shall be heard and disposed of by not less than two Judges of that High Court.

(1) After examining the claims with reference to the priorities set out in the Schedule, the Commissioner shall fix a date on or before which every claimant shall file the proof of his claim. (2) Not less than fourteen day's notice of the date fixed shall be given by advertisement in one issue of such daily newspaper in the English language, one issue of such daily newspaper in the Marathi language and in one issue of such daily newspaper in such other regional language as the Commissioner may consider suitable, and every such notice shall call upon the claimant to file the proof of his claim with the Commissioner within the period specified in the advertisement. (3) Every claimant who fails to file the proof of his claim within the period specified by the Commissioner shall be excluded from the disbursements made by the Commissioner. (4) The Commissioner shall, after such investigation as may, in his opinion, be necessary and after giving the proprietors an opportunity of refuting the claims and after giving the claimant a reasonable opportunity of being heard, admit or reject, by order in writing, the claim in whole or in part. (5) The Commissioner shall have the power to regulate his own procedure in all matters arising out of the discharge of his functions, including the place or places at which he may hold his sittings and shall, for the purpose of making an investigation under this Act, have the same powers as are vested in a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (V of 1908), while trying a suit, in respect of the following matters, namely :- (a) the summoning and enforcing the attendance of any witness and examining him on oath ; (b) the discovery and production of any document or other material object producible as evidence ; (c) the reception of evidence on affidavits ; (d) the issuing of any commission for the examination of witnesses. (6) Any investigation before the Commissioner shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of sections 193 and 228 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (XLV of 1860), and the Commissioner shall be deemed to be a civil court for the purposes of section 195 and Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (II of 1974). (7) A claimant, who is dissatisfied with the decision of the Commissioner, may prefer an appeal against such decision to the principal civil court of original jurisdiction within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the registered office of the proprietors is situated : Provided that, where a person who is a Judge of a High Court is appointed to be the Commissioner, such appeal shall lie to the High Court of Bombay and such appeal shall be heard and disposed of by not less than two Judges of that High Court.

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