Amendment of Section 6

In Section 6 of the Principal Act, the word "authorised" shall be omitted. Every summons issued under section 5 shall be served through the District Judge concerned and for that purpose the summons shall be forwarded to the District Judge with a letter in Form III. The power to authorise an inquiring officer under section 5 of the Act shall be exercised by the State Government if it is of the opinion that for the purposes of any departmental inquiry it is necessary to do so in relation to any employee or class or category of employees specified in clauses (a) and (b) of section 2 of the Act. Where the witness is a servant of the Government of India or any other state Government, he shall be entitled to receive in respect of the attendance before the authority holding the departmental enquiry, from the central or the state Government concerned, such travelling allowance and/or daily allowance as may be admissible to him under the rules applicable to him in that behalf in respect of a journey undertaken on tour and the amount so paid shall be paid by this state Government to the central Government or the state Government concerned who shall raise a debit in respect thereof against this state Government.