Powe,-,, of Reve,rnr Officers to require attendance of penoru. and productin of rlocumen'- aud to n:c6ve e•idence,

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Statutory text

(1) Subject to the provisions of section~ 132 and 133 of the Code of Civil Prottedure, 1908 (V of 1908) and to rules made under section 41, every Revenue Officer act_in~ as a Revenue Court shall have power to take evidence, to ~ummon any person whose attcndencr: he considers necessary either to be examined as a party or to give evidence as a witness or to produce any document f0r the purposes of any inquiry or ca~e arising under this Code or any other enactment for the time being in force. (2) No person ~hall~ order-ed to attend in person, unless he resides- (a) within the limits of the tahsil if the Revenue Officer acting as a Revenue Court is a Naib-Tahsildar ahd in thr: case of an'\· other Revenue Officer, within the local limits of his jurisdiction'; o, (b) without such limits but at a place leS1l than fifty, or where there is a railway communication or other established public convcy~nce for five-sixths of the distance between the place where he resides and the place where he is summoned to attend, less than two hundred miles distant from such place. (3) Any person present may be required by any such Revenue Officer to give evidence or tu produce any document then and there in his possession or power. (4) Every such Revenue Officer shall have power to issue a commi-ssion to examine any person who is exempted from attending Court or who cannot be ordered to attend in person or is unable to attend on account of sickness or infirmity.

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