Power of the Land Board and Land Tribunal

(1) The Land Board and the Land Tribunal constituted under this Act shall have all the powers of a civil court while trying a suit under the law for the time being in force relating to civil procedure, 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) receiving evidence on affidavit;

(d) issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses or for local investigation; and

(e) any other matter which may be prescribed.

(2) The Land Board shall have superintendence over the Land Tribunals and the appellate authority, and the Land Board may ---

(a) call for returns from the Land Tribunals and the appellate authority;

(b) make and issue general rules and prescribe forms for regulating the practice and proceedings of the Land Tribunals and the appellate authority;

(c) prescribe forms in which books, entries and accounts shall be kept by the Land Tribunals and the appellate authority;

(3) Where in any proceeding before the Land Tribunal a question arises whether a person is a small-holder or not or whether a person is or is not a tenant, or whether the right, title and interest of the landowner and the intermediaries, if any, in respect of any holding, have or have not vested in the Government under section 80 it shall be competent for the Land Tribunal to decide the question.

(4) If any question arises as to whether any land is exempted under section 91, the question shall be decided by the Land Board in such manner and having regard to such matters as may be prescribed, and the decision of the Land Board shall be final.