The Tamil Nadu Revenue Summonses Act, 1869
The Tamil Nadu Revenue Summonses Act, 1869
This legislation empowers revenue officials, such as Collectors and Tahsildars, to issue formal summonses requiring individuals to testify or present documents during official administrative inquiries. It applies to revenue officers conducting investigations within the state and to members of the public whose evidence or records are relevant to an inquiry. The law sets clear delivery procedures for summonses, permits document delivery through representatives, and allows exemptions from personal appearance for sick or infirm individuals. It matters because it grants revenue officers essential civil court powers to gather evidence, while establishing standard safeguards and witness allowances during administrative proceedings.
- 1. Revenue-officers empowered to summon persons to appear or produce documents.
- 2. Terms of summons.
- 3. Service of summons.
- 4. Persons summoned to produce may send documents by third parties.
- 5. Attendance of witnesses may be dispensed with.
- 6. Officers to have powers of a civil court in certain cases.
- 7. Power to make rules.
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