Procedure of working of the Appellate Authority.

(1) The Appellate Authority shall conduct its proceeding in the prescribed manner after giving the opposite party or any one interested in the order appealed against an opportunity of being heard. (2) The Appellate Authority may, at any time, call for any extract from any proceeding of the State Government or Authority and call for any return or statement or report concerning or connected with any matter with which the Authority has been authorized to deal. (3) The Appellate Authority shall have all the powers of a Civil Court for the purposes of taking evidence on oath and of enforcing the attendance of witness including the parties interested or any of them and compelling the production of documents and material objection if considered necessary. (4) The Appellate Authority in its discretion may make any orders regarding the cost to be paid by any of the parties to the proceedings and Appellate Authority shall have full powers to determine by whom or out of what property and to what extent such costs are to be paid and the authority shall be bound to execute orders of the Appellate Authority in accordance with the directions, if any, contained in the order and such costs or amounts awarded by the Appellate Authority shall be realized as arrears of land revenue.