Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
6. Courts of Inquiry
(1) The appropriate government may, as occasion arises by
notification in the Official Gazette, constitute a Court of Inquiry for
inquiring into any matter appearing to be connected with or relevant to an
industrial dispute.
(2) A court may consist of one independent person or of such
number of independent persons as the appropriate government may think fit and where
a court consists of two or more members, one of them shall be appointed as the
Chairman.
(3) A court, having the prescribed quorum, may act not with
standing the absence of the Chairman or any of its members or any vacancy in
its number:
PROVIDED that, if the appropriate government notifies
the court that the services of the Chairman have ceased to be available, the
court shall not act until a new Chairman has been appointed.