law: Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991
  7. Award of relief  
  (1) On receipt of an application under sub-section (1) of
  
  section 6, the Collector shall, after giving notice of the application to the
  
  owner and after giving the parties an opportunity of being heard, hold an
  
  inquiry into the claim or, each of the claims, and may make an award
  
  determining the amount of relief which appears to him to be just and specifying
  
  the person or persons to whom such amount of relief shall be paid. 
  (2) The Collector shall arrange to deliver copies of the award
  
  to the parties concerned expeditiously and in any case within a period of
  
  fifteen days from the date of the award. 
  1[(3) When an award is made under this section,- 
  (a) the insurer, who is required to pay any amount
  
  in terms of such award and to the extent specified in sub-section (2B) of
  
  section 4, shall, within a period of thirty days of the date of announcement of
  
  the award, deposit that amount in such manner as the Collector may direct; 
  (b) the Collector shall arrange to pay from
  
  the Relief Fund, in terms of such award and in accordance with the scheme made
  
  under section 7A, to the person or persons referred to in sub-section (1) such
  
  amount as may be specified in that scheme; 
  (c) the owner shall, within such period,
  
  deposit such amount in such manner as the Collector may direct.] 
  (4) In holding any inquiry under sub-section (1), the Collector
  
  may, subject to any rules made in this behalf, follow such summary procedure as
  
  he thinks fit. 
  (5) The Collector shall have all the powers of a Civil Court for
  
  the purpose of taking evidence on oath and of enforcing the attendance of
  
  witnesses and of compelling the discovery and production of documents and
  
  material objects and for such other purposes as may be prescribed; and the
  
  Collector shall be deemed to be a Civil Court for all the purposes of section
  
  195 and Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974). 
  (6) Where the insurer or the owner against whom the award is
  
  made under sub-section (1) fails to deposit the amount of such award within the
  
  period specified under sub-section (3), such amount shall be recoverable from
  
  the owner, or as the case may be, the insurer as arrears of land revenue or of
  
  public demand.
  (7) A claim for relief in respect of death, of or injury to, any
  
  person or damage to any property shall be disposed of as expeditiously as
  
  possible, and every endeavor shall be made to dispose of such claim within
  
  three months of the receipt of the application for relief under sub-section (1)
  
  of section 6. 
  2[(8) Where an owner is likely to remove or dispose of his
  
  property with the object of evading payment by him of any amount of the award,
  
  the Collector may, in accordance with the provisions of rules 1 to 4 of Order
  
  XXXIX of the First Schedule to the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908),
  
  grant a temporary injunction to restrain such act.