law: Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007
  8. Summary procedure
  
  in case of inquiry.-
  1.  
  
    In
  
  holding any inquiry under section 5, the Tribunal may, subject to any rules
  
  that may be prescribed by the State Government in this behalf, follow such
  
  summary procedure as it deems fit.
  2.  
  
    The
  
  Tribunal shall have all the powers of a Civil Court for the purpose of taking
  
  evidence on oath and of enforcing the attendance of witnesses and of compelling
  
  the discovery and production of documents and material objects and for such
  
  other purposes as may be prescribed; and the Tribunal 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. (2 of 1974)
  3.  
  
    Subject
  
  to any rule that may be made in this behalf, the Tribunal may, for the purpose
  
  of adjudicating and deciding upon any claim for maintenance, choose one or more
  
  persons possessing special knowledge of any matter relevant to the inquiry to
  
  assist it in holding the inquiry.