Power of Government to call for records and pass orders.

(1) The Government may either suo motu or on an application call, for and examine the record of the Commissioner or any Deputy Commissioner or any Assistant Commissioner or any other Officer subordinate to them, or of any Executive Officer or any trustee of a charitable or religious institution or endowment, other than a math or specific endowment attached to a math, in respect of any administrative or quasi-judicial decision taken or order passed under this Act, but not being a proceeding in respect of which a suit or an appeal or application, or a reference to court is provided by this Act, to satisfy themselves as to the correctness, legality or propriety of such, decision or order taken or passed, and if in any case, it appears to the Government that 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 an opportunity of making his representation. (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 92 and had been disposed of by him. (4) Every application to the Government for the exercise of their powers under this section shall be made within ninety days from the date on which the decision or order to which the application relates was received by the applicant.