law: The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Act, 2006
  13. Procedure of the
  
  Board.-
  1.  The
  
  Board shall have, for the purposes of discharging its functions under this Act,
  
  the same powers as are vested in a civil court under the Code of Civil
  
  Procedure, 1908 (5 of 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.   subject to the
  
  provisions of sections 123 and 124 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of
  
  1872), requisitioning any public record or document or a copy of such record or
  
  document, from any office and production of such documents;
  c.   receiving evidence on
  
  affidavits;
  d.   issuing commissions
  
  for the examination of witnesses or documents;
  e.   dismissing an
  
  application for default or deciding it, ex parte;
  f.   setting aside any
  
  order of dismissal of any application for default or any order passed by it, ex
  
  parte;
  g.   granting interim
  
  relief;
  h.   reviewing its
  
  decision; and
  i.   any other matter
  
  which may be prescribed.
  1.  
  2.  
  
    Every
  
  proceeding before the Board shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within
  
  the meaning of sections 193 and 228, and for the purposes of section 196, of
  
  the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) and the Board shall be deemed to be a civil
  
  court for the purposes of section 195 and Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal
  
  Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).
  3.  The
  
  Board shall be guided by the principles of natural justice and subject to other
  
  provisions of this Act and of any rules made there under, shall have powers to
  
  regulate its own procedure including the places at which it shall conduct its
  
  business.