law: Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act,1992 
  14. Powers of Adjudicating and other Authorities. — 
  (1) Every authority making any adjudication or hearing any
  
  appeal or exercising any powers of revision under this Act shall have all the
  
  powers of 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
  
  witnesses;
  (b) Requiring the discovery and production of
  
  any document:
  (c) Requisitioning any public record or copy
  
  thereof from any court or office:
  (d) Receiving evidence on affidavits; and
  (e) Issuing commissions for the examination of
  
  witnesses or documents
  (2) Every authority making any adjudication or hearing any
  
  appeal or exercising any powers of revision under this Act shall be deemed to
  
  be a civil court for the purposes of sections 345 and 346 of the Code of
  
  Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).
  (3) Every authority making any adjudication or hearing any
  
  appeal or exercising any powers of revision under this Act shall have the power
  
  to make such orders of an interim nature as it may think fit and may also, for
  
  sufficient cause, order the stay of operation of any decision or order .
  (4) Clerical or arithmetical mistakes in any decision or order
  
  or errors arising therein from any accidental slip or omission may at any time
  
  be corrected by the authority by which the decision or order was made, either
  
  on its own motion or on the application of any of the parties:
  Provided  that where any correction proposed to be made
  
  under this sub section will have the effect of prejudicially affecting any
  
  person, no such correction shall be made except after giving to that person a
  
  reasonable opportunity of making a representation in the matter and no such
  
  correction shall be made after the expiry of two years from the date on which
  
  such decision or order was made.