State Act

THE KARNATAKA GRAM SWARAJ AND PANCHAYAT RAJ ACT, 1993

308-G Powers of the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Delimitation Commission.- (1) The Karnataka Panchayat Raj Delimitation Commission shall determine its own procedure and shall, in the Performance of its functions, have all the powers of a Civil Court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, (Central Act V of 1908) while trying a suit, in respect of the following matters, namely:- (i) summoning and enforcing the attendance of witnesses; (ii) requiring the production of any document; and (iii) requisitioning any public record from any Office. (2) The Karnataka Panchayat Raj Delimitation Commission shall have power to require any person to furnish any information on such points or matters as in the opinion of the Commission may be useful for, or relevant to, any matter under the consideration of the Commission. (3) The Karnataka Panchayat Raj Delimitation Commission may authorize any of its members to exercise any of the powers conferred on it by clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of sub-section (1) and sub-section (2), and any order made or act done in exercise of any of those powers by the member authorized by the Delimitation commission in that behalf shall be deemed order of the Commission or the Act, as the case may be, of the Delimitation Commission.