Section 63: Powers of insurance courts etc

63. Powers of insurance courts etc.___(1) An insurance court shall have all the powers of a civil court for the purposes of summoning and enforcing the attendance of witnesses, compelling the discovery and production of documents and material objects, administering oath and recording evidence, and such a court shall be deemed to be a civil court within the meaning of section 195 of the Code of Criminal Procedure,1898 (Act V of 1898),. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law, an insurance court may for the purpose of deciding any appeal examine such witnesses and take such evidence as it considers necessary. (3) Subject to regulations, an insurance court may make such order with regard to costs incidental to any appeal as it thinks fit. (4) An order of the insurance court shall be enforceable as if it were a decree of a civil court. (5) A person shall be guilty of contempt of an insurance court if he, without lawful excuse, — (a) offers any insult to the insurance court or any member thereof while the court is functioning as such ; or (b) causes any interruption in the work of the insurance court ; or (c) fails to produce or deliver a document when ordered by the insurance court to do ; or (d) refuses to answer any question of the insurance court which he is bound to answer ; or (e) refuses to take oath to state the truth or to sign any statement ma de by him when required by the insurance court to do so; and the insurance court may, without any complaint having been made to it forthwith try such person for such contempt and sentence him to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees.

Effective date: 1962-01-01

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