Section 4
Power of Central Government to authorise the exercise of powers specified in section 5.
About this Act
An Act to provide for the enforcement of attendance of witnesses and production of documents in certain departmental inquiries and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1) Where the Central Government is of opinion that for the purposes of any departmental
inquiry it is necessary to summon as witnesses, or call for any document from, any class or category of
persons, it may, by notification in the Official Gazette, authorise the inquiring authority to exercise the
power specified in section 5 in relation to any person within such class or category and thereupon the
inquiring authority may exercise such power at any stage of the departmental inquiry.
(2) The power conferred on the Central Government by sub-section (1) may also be exercised by such authority, not being an authority inferior to the appointing authority in relation to the person against whom the departmental inquiry is being held, as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf.
(2) The power conferred on the Central Government by sub-section (1) may also be exercised by such authority, not being an authority inferior to the appointing authority in relation to the person against whom the departmental inquiry is being held, as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf.