Rent Controlling Authority to issue summons in relation to every application under Section 23-A.

23B. Rent Controlling Authority to issue summons in relation to every application under Section 23-A. - (1) The Rent Controlling Authority shall issue to the tenant a summons, in relation to every application referred to in Section 23-A, in the form specified in the Second Schedule. (2) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the provisions of Order V and Order XVI of the First Schedule to the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (V of 1908) regarding issue and service of summons to a defendant and summoning and attendance of witnesses to give evidence or to produce documents shall apply mutatis mutandis to issue and service of any summons to a tenant or opposite party or to a witness to give evidence or to produce documents in an inquiry or proceeding under this Chapter.