law: Cine Workers and Cinema Theatre Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1981 
  12. Procedure and powers of conciliation
  
  officers and Tribunals 
  (1) Subject to any rules that may be made in
  
  this behalf, a conciliation officer or a Tribunal shall follow such procedure
  
  as the officer or Tribunal may think fit.
  (2) A conciliation officer or a Tribunal may,
  
  for the purpose of inquiry into any existing or apprehended dispute, after
  
  giving reasonable notice, enter any premises in the occupation of any party to
  
  the dispute.
  (3) Every Tribunal shall have the same powers
  
  as are vested in a Civil Court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, when
  
  trying a suit, in respect of the following matters, namely:-
  (a) enforcing the
  
  attendance of any person and examining him on oath;
  (b) compelling the
  
  production of documents and material objects;
  (c) issuing
  
  commissions for the examination of witnesses; and
  (d) in respect of such
  
  other matters as may be prescribed;
  and every inquiry or investigation by a
  
  Tribunal shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of
  
  sections 193 and 228 of the Indian Penal Code and the Tribunal shall be deemed
  
  to be a Civil Court for the purposes of section 195 and Chapter XXVI of the
  
  Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.
  (4) A conciliation officer may call for and
  
  inspect any document which he has ground for considering to be relevant to the
  
  dispute or to be necessary for the purpose of verifying the implementation of
  
  any award or carrying out any other duty imposed on him under this Chapter, and
  
  for the aforesaid purposes, the conciliation officer shall have the same powers
  
  as are vested in a Civil Court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, in
  
  respect of compelling the production of documents.
  (5) A Tribunal may, if it so thinks fit,
  
  appoint one or more persons having special knowledge of the matter under
  
  consideration as assessor or assessors to advise it in the proceeding before
  
  it.
  (6) A Tribunal may grant to any party to any
  
  proceeding before it, such interim or other reliefs (whether subject to any
  
  conditions or not), including stay of any order, issue of any injunction or
  
  direction in regard to payment of wages or other amounts payable under the
  
  agreement referred to in section 3, setting aside any unilateral termination of
  
  contract or the dismissal of a worker or reinstating a worker, as it deems just
  
  and proper in the circumstances of the case:
  Provided  that the Tribunal shall not grant any
  
  such interim relief unless all the parties to the proceeding have been served
  
  with a notice on the application for such interim relief and have been given a
  
  reasonable opportunity of being heard:
  Provided  further that the Tribunal may, having
  
  regard to the nature of the interim relief sought and the circumstances of the
  
  case, pass appropriate orders granting such interim relief as it deems just and
  
  proper in the circumstances of the case before the notice referred to in the
  
  preceding proviso is served on the parties to the proceeding:
  Provided  also that where the Tribunal makes any
  
  order under the proviso immediately preceding, it shall record the reasons for
  
  making the order before complying with the requirements specified in the first
  
  proviso.
  (7) Subject to any rules that may be made in
  
  this behalf, the awarding of damages in, and the cost of, and incidental to,
  
  any proceeding before a Tribunal shall be in the discretion of that Tribunal
  
  and the Tribunal shall have full power to determine by and to whom and to what
  
  extent and subject to what conditions, if any, such damages or costs are to be
  
  paid, and to give all necessary directions for the purposes aforesaid and such
  
  damages or costs may on an application made to the Central Government by the
  
  person entitled, be directed to be recovered by that Government in the same
  
  manner as an arrear of land revenue.