law: Dock Workers (Safety, Health and Welfare) Act, 1986 
  10. Power of
  
  appropriate Government to direct inquiry into cases of accidents or diseases. – 
  1.     
  
    The
  
  appropriate Government may, if it considers it expedient to do so, appoint a
  
  competent person to inquire into the causes of any accident occurring, in connection
  
  with any dock work or into any cases where a disease specified by regulations
  
  as a disease it disease connected with dock work has been or is Suspected to
  
  have been contracted by dock workers and may also appoint one or more persons
  
  possessing, legal or special knowledge to act as assessors in Such inquiry.
  2.     
  
    The
  
  person appointed to hold an inquiry under this section shall have all the
  
  powers of' a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908)
  
  for the Purposes of enforcing the attendance of witness and compelling the
  
  production of document and material objects and may also, so far as may be
  
  necessary for the Purposes of the inquiry, exercise any of the powers of an
  
  Inspector under this Act; and every person required by the person making the
  
  inquiry to furnish any information shall he deemed to he legally bound so to do
  
  within the meaning of section 176 or the Indian Penal Code (45 of' 1860).
  3.     
  
    The
  
  person holding the inquiry under this section shall make a report to the
  
  appropriate Government stating the causes of the accident or, as the case may
  
  be, disease and any attendant circumstances and adding any observations which
  
  he or any of the assessors may think fit to make.
  4.     
  
    The
  
  procedure to be followed at inquiries under this section shall be such is the
  
  appropriate Government may prescribe by rules under section 20.