law: The Energy Conservation Act, 2001
  31. Appeal to
  
  Appellate Tribunal.-
  1.  Any
  
  person aggrieved, by an order made by an adjudicating officer or the Central
  
  Government or the State Government or any other authority under this Act, may
  
  prefer an appeal to the Appellate Tribunal for Energy Conservation: Provided
  
  that any person, appealing against the order of the adjudicating officer
  
  levying any penalty, shall, while filing the appeal, deposit the amount of such
  
  penalty: Provided further that where in any particular case, the Appellate
  
  Tribunal is of the opinion that the deposit of such penalty would cause undue
  
  hardship to such person, the Appellate Tribunal may dispense with such deposit
  
  subject to such conditions as I may deem fit to impose so as to safeguard the
  
  realisation of penalty.
  2.  Every
  
  appeal under sub-section (1) shall be filed within a period of forty-five days
  
  from the date on which a copy of the order made by the adjudicating officer or
  
  the Central Government or the State Government or any other authority is
  
  received by t e aggrieved person and it shall be in such form, verified in such
  
  manner and be accompanied by such fee as may be prescribed: Provided that the
  
  Appellate Tribunal may entertain an appeal after the expiry of the said period
  
  of forty-five days if it is satisfied that there was sufficient cause for not
  
  filing it within that period.
  3.  On
  
  receipt of an appeal under sub-section (1), the Appellate Tribunal may, after
  
  giving the parties to the appeal an opportunity of being heard, pass such
  
  orders thereon as it thinks fit, confirming, modifying or setting aside the
  
  order appealed against.
  4.  The
  
  Appellate Tribunal shall send a copy of every order made by it to the parties
  
  to the appeal and to the concerned adjudicating officer or the Central
  
  Government or the State Government or any other authority.
  5.  The
  
  appeal filed before the Appellate Tribunal under sub-section (1) shall be dealt
  
  with by it as expeditiously as possible and endeavour shall be made by it to
  
  dispose of the appeal finally within one hundred and eighty days from the date
  
  of receipt of the appeal: Provided that where an appeal could not be disposed
  
  of within the said period of one hundred and eighty days, the Appellate
  
  Tribunal shall record its reasons in writing for not disposing of the appeal
  
  within the said period.
  6.  
  
    The
  
  Appellate Tribunal may, for the purpose of examining the legality, propriety or
  
  correctness of any order made by the adjudicating officer or the Central
  
  Government or the State Government or any other authority under this Act, as
  
  the case may be, n relation to any proceeding, on its own motion or otherwise,
  
  call for the records of such proceedings and make such order in the case as it
  
  thinks fit.