law: Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985
  13. Procedure of Board and appellate authority 
  (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Board or, as the
  
  case may be, the appellate authority, shall have powers to regulate- 
  (a) the procedure and conduct of the business;
  
  
  (b) the procedure of the Benches, including
  
  the places at which the sittings of the Benches shall be held;
  (c) the delegation to one or more members of
  
  such powers or functions as the Board or, as the case may be, the appellate
  
  authority may specify.
  (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the
  
  foregoing provisions, the powers of the Board or, as the case may be, the
  
  appellate authority, shall include the power to determine the extent to which
  
  persons interested or claiming to be interested in the subject matter of any
  
  proceeding before it may be allowed to be present or to be heard, either by
  
  themselves or by their representatives or to cross-examine witnesses or
  
  otherwise to take part in the proceedings.
  (3) The Board or the appellate authority shall, for the purposes
  
  of any inquiry or for any other purpose under this Act, have the same powers as
  
  are vested in a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 while
  
  trying suits in respect of the following matters, namely,- 
  (a) the summoning and enforcing the attendance
  
  of any witness and examining him on oath;
  (b) the discovery and production of document
  
  or other material object producible as evidence;
  (c) the reception of evidence on affidavit;
  (d) the requisitioning of any public record
  
  from any court or office;
  (e) the issuing of any commission for the
  
  examination of witnesses;
  (f) any other matter which may be prescribed.