Powers of civil court :-

(1) In exercising the functions conferred on it by or under this Act, the Registrar, the arbitrator or any other person deciding a dispute under section 56 and the liquidator of a co-operative soicety or person entitled to audit, inspect or hold an inquiry shall have all the powers of a civil court, while trying a suit, under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908 ), in repect 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) proof of facts by affidavits: and (d) issuing commissions for examination of witnesses. (2) In the case of an affidavit, any officer appointed by the Registrar, the arbitrator or any other person deciding a dispute and the liquidator, as the case may be, may administer the oath to the deponent.