Officers to have power of Civil Court for administering oaths

Every Collector, Certificate Officer, Assistant Collector, Deputy Collector, or Sub-Deputy Collector acting under this Act, shall have the powers of a Civil Court for the purposes of receiving evidence, administering oaths, enforcing the attendance of witnesses and compelling the production of documents. When a copy of a certificate has been sent to another officer under sub-section (1) of section 12, or when a certificate has been signed upon a requisition, any satisfaction of the certificate, whether in whole or in part, shall be certified to such officer, or to the sender of such requisition, as the case may be.