Procedure of the Board

(1) The Board shall have, for the purposes of discharging its functions under this Act, the same powers as are vested in a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), while trying a suit, in respect of the following matters, namely:— (a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath; (b) subject to the provisions of sections 123 and 124 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), requisitioning any public record or document or a copy of such record or document, from any office and production of such documents; (c) receiving evidence on affidavits; (d) issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses or documents; (e) dismissing an application for default or deciding it, ex parte; (f) setting aside any order of dismissal of any application for default or any order passed by it, ex parte; (g) granting interim relief; (h) reviewing its decision; and (i) any other matter which may be prescribed.