Section 95
Powers and procedure of competent authority.
The Code on Social Security, 2020
About this Act
An Act to amend and consolidate the laws relating to social security with the goal to extend social security to all employees and workers either in the organised or unorganised or any other sectors and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The competent authority shall have all the
powers of a Civil Court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), for the purpose of taking
evidence on oath (which such competent authority is hereby empowered to impose) and of enforcing the
attendance of witnesses and compelling the production of documents and material objects, and the
competent authority shall be deemed to be a Civil Court for all the purposes of section 195 and of Chapter
XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).