Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948
78. Powers of Employees' Insurance Court
(1) The Employees' 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 Court shall be
deemed to be a Civil Court within the meaning of 117[section 195 and
Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973].
(2) The Employees' Insurance Court shall follow such procedure
as may be prescribed by rules made by the State Government.
(3) All costs incidental to any proceeding before an Employees' Insurance
Court shall, subject to such rules as may be made in this behalf by the State
Government, be in the discretion of the Court.
(4) An order of the Employees' Insurance Court shall be
enforceable as if it were a decree passed in a suit by a Civil Court.