Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955
11.Powers and procedure of the Board. -
(1)Subject to the provisions contained in
sub-section (2), the Board may exercise all or any of the powers which an
Industrial Tribunal constituted -under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of
1947), exercises for the adjudication of an industrial dispute referred to it
and shall, subject to the provisions contained in this Act, and the rules, if
any, made-thereunder have power to regulate its own procedure.
(2)Any representation made to the Board and
any document furnished to it way of' evidence shall be open to inspection oh
payment of such fee as may be-prescribed, by any person interested in the
matter.
(3)If, for any reason, a vacancy occurs in the
office of Chairman or any other member of the Board, the Central Government
shall fill the vacancy by a person thereto in accordance with the provisions of
Sec.9 and any proceeding may be continued before the Board as reconstituted
from the stage at which the vacancy occurred.