section 17
Powers of competent authority and Revenue Divisional Officer.
The Kerala Scheduled Tribes (Restriction on Transfer of Lands and Restoration of Alienated Lands) Act, 1975General197523 sections
Statutory text
- (1) The competent authority and the Revenue Divisional Officer while making inquiries under this Act shall have all the powers of a civil court while trying a suit under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Central Act 5 of 1908), in respect of the following matters, namely:—
- (a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath;
- (b) requiring the discovery and production of any document;
- (c) any other matter which may be prescribed.
- (2) The decisions of the competent authority and the Revenue Divisional Officer under this Act shall have the force of a decree of a civil court.
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