law: National Environment Tribunal Act, 1995
  5. Procedure and powers of Tribunal
  (1) On   receipt 
  
  of an application under sub-section (1) of  section 4, the Tribunal may,
  
  after such inquiry as it may deem fit, reject the application summarily.
  (2) Where the Tribunal does not reject the
  
  application under sub-section (1), the Tribunal may, 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 compensation which appears to be just and
  
  specifying the person or persons to whom such amount of compensation shall be
  
  paid.
  (3) The Tribunal shall not be bound by the
  
  procedure laid down by the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, but shall be guided
  
  by the principles of nature justice and, subject to the other provisions of
  
  this Act and of any rules, the Tribunal shall have power to regulate its own
  
  procedure including the fixing of places and times of its inquiry.
  (4) The Tribunal shall have, for the purpose
  
  of discharging its functions under this Act, the same powers as are vested in a
  
  civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 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) requiring 
  
  the discovery and production of documents;
  (c) receiving 
  
  evidence on affidavits;
  (d) subject to the
  
  provisions of sections 123 and 124 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872,
  
  requisitioning any public record or document or copy of such record or document
  
  from any office;
  (e) issuing 
  
  commissions for the examination of witnesses or documents;
  (f) reviewing 
  
  its decisions;
  (g) dismissing 
  
  an application or default or deciding it ex ports;
  (h) setting 
  
  aside any order of dismissal of any application for default or any order passed
  
  by it  ex parte ; and
  ( i )
  
   any other matter which is to be, or may be,
  
  prescribed.