State Act

The Corporation Of Calcutta ( Investigation Commission ) Act, 1948

6. (1) The Commission shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, have power to regulate its own procedure (including the fixing of places and times of its sittings and deciding whether to sit in public or in private) and may act notwithstanding the temporary absence of any Commissioner or Commissioners or a vacancy in the number of the Commissioners. (2) In making an investigation under clause (a) of section 3, the Commission shall act in accordance with the principles of natural justice and shall follow as far as practicable the principles of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. (3) Except with the previous sanction of the Provincial Government,— (a) no suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall be instituted against any person in any Civil or Criminal Court for any evidence given by him in any proceedings before the Commission, and (b) no evidence so given shall be admissible in evidence against such person in any suit, prosecution or other proceeding before such Court. (4) No document shall be inadmissible in any proceedings before the Commission on the ground that it is not duly stamped or registered.