Provided that such authority may, if it thinks fit, recall and re-examine any of the witnesses already examined.

Procedure before prescribed authority

1. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and of any rules made thereunder, every election petition shall be tried by the prescribed authority, as nearly as may be, in accordance with the procedure applicable under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Act No. V of 1908), to the trial of suits: Provided that the prescribed authority shall have the discretion to refuse for reasons to be recorded to examine any witness or witnesses, if it is of the opinion that their evidence is not material for the decision of the petition or that the party tendering such witness or witnesses is doing so on frivolous grounds or with a view to delay the proceedings.
2. (2) The provisions of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (Act No.