Section 50:
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 section 195
and Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).
(2) The Employees' Insurance Court shall follow such procedure as may be prescribed 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 that court.
(4) An order of the Employees' Insurance Court shall be enforceable by it as if it were a decree passed
in a suit by a Civil Court.