PUNJAB DEPARTMENTAL INQUIRIES (POWERS) ACT, 1958

PUNJAB DEPARTMENTAL INQUIRIES (POWERS) ACT, 1958

 

 

 

THE

PUNJAB DEPARTMENTAL INQUIRIES (POWERS)

ACT, 1958

(W.P. Act XLV of 1958)

23th  September 1958

An Act to confer powers for compelling

attendance of witnesses and production of documents on

officers conducting departmental inquiries against Government  servants in the Province of the Punjab

 

Preamble : —

WHEREAS it is expedient to confer powers to compel attendance of witnesses and production of documents on officers conducting departmental inquiries against Government servants in the Province of the Punjab;

           

It is hereby enacted as follows : —

 

1.         Short title and extent : — (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Departmental Inquiries (Powers) Act, 1958.

 

            (2)        It extends to the whole of the Province of the Punjab, except the Tribal Areas.

 

2.         Power to summon witnesses and to compel production of documents : — An officer conducting a departmental inquiry against a Government servant under any rules for the time being in force, may exercise the same powers for compelling the attendance of witnesses, production of documents and issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses] as are exercisable by a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908:

 

            Provided that the process issued by the officer conducting the departmental inquiry shall be served and executed by the civil court having jurisdiction in the place where the witness or the person in possession of the document, as the case may be, resides.

 

3.         Penalties : — Any person disobeying a process issued by an officer in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 shall be liable to the same penalties to which he would have been liable if he had disobeyed a process issued by the civil court.

 

4.         Repeal : — The West Pakistan Departmental Inquiries (Powers) Ordinance, 1958, is hereby repealed.