law: Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000
  43.
  
     Procedure
  
  and powers of Appellate Board.
  1.   The Appellate Board
  
  shall not be bound by the procedure laid down in the Code of Civil Procedure,
  
  1908 but shall be guided by principles of natural justice and, subject to the
  
  provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, the Appellate Board shall
  
  have powers to regulate its own procedure including the fixing of places and
  
  times of its hearing.
  2.   The Appellate Board
  
  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.  
  
    receiving
  
  evidence;
  b.  
  
    issuing
  
  commissions for examination of witnesses;
  c.  
  
    requisitioning
  
  any public record; and
  d.  
  
    any
  
  other matter which may be prescribed.
  1.     
  2.     
  3.   Any proceeding before
  
  the Appellate Board shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within the
  
  meaning of sections 193 and 228, and for the purpose of section 196 of the
  
  Indian Penal Code, and the Appellate Board shall be deemed to be a civil court
  
  for all the purposes of section 195 and Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal
  
  Procedure, 1973.