Power of Government to call for records and pass orders

(1) The Government may call for and examine the record of, the Commissioner or the Additional Commissioner or any Joint or Deputy or Assistant Commissioner or of any trustee in respect of any proceeding, not being a proceeding, in respect of which a suit or an appeal or application to a Court or an appeal to the Government is provided by this Act, to satisfy themselves as to the regularity of such proceeding or the correctness, legality or propriety of any decision or order passed therein and if, in any case, it appears to the Government that any such decision or order should be modified, annulled, reversed or remitted for reconsideration, they may pass orders accordingly : Provided that the Government shall not pass any order prejudicial to any party unless he has had a reasonable opportunity of making his representations. (2) The Government may stay the execution of any such decision or order, pending the exercise of their powers under sub-section (1) in respect thereof. (3) No application to the Government for the exercise of their power under this section shall be made in respect of any matter unless an application had already been made in respect of the same matter to the Commissioner under section 21 and had been disposed of by him. (4) Every application to the Government for the exercise of their power under this section shall be preferred within three months from the date on which the order or proceeding to which the application relates was communicated to the applicant. Minor