law: Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
  6. Courts of Inquiry
  (1) The appropriate government may, as occasion arises by
  
  notification in the Official Gazette, constitute a Court of Inquiry for
  
  inquiring into any matter appearing to be connected with or relevant to an
  
  industrial dispute.
  (2) A court may consist of one independent person or of such
  
  number of independent persons as the appropriate government may think fit and where
  
  a court consists of two or more members, one of them shall be appointed as the
  
  Chairman.
  (3) A court, having the prescribed quorum, may act not with
  
  standing the absence of the Chairman or any of its members or any vacancy in
  
  its number:
  PROVIDED  that, if the appropriate government notifies
  
  the court that the services of the Chairman have ceased to be available, the
  
  court shall not act until a new Chairman has been appointed.