THE TAMIL NADU REVENUE ENQUIRIES ACT, 1893
An Act for facilitating enquiries into matters connected with the administration of the Revenue and into the conduct of Public Servants.
This Act extends to the whole of the (This expression was substituted for the expression "Presidency of Madras" by the Tamil Nadu Adaptation of Laws Order, 1970, which was deemed to have come into force on the 14th January 1969) [State of Tamil Nadu].
2. Officer deputed to make enquiries invested with certain powers.
The Government may, by order, invest any officer deputed by it to make an enquiry into any matter connected with the administration of the revenue or into the conduct of any public Servant as such with power to summon any person to appear before such officer or to produce any document or thing in the possession or under the control of such person the production of which, in the opinion of such officer, is necessary to the conduct of such enquiry.
3. Application of certain portions of [Tamil Nadu] Revenue Summons Act, 1869.
The provisions of sections 2, 3, 4 and 5 of (These words were substituted for the word "Madras" by the Tamil Nadu Adaptation of Laws Order, 1969, as amended by the Tamil Nadu Adaptation of Laws (Second Amendment) Order, 1969, which came into force on the 14th January 1969) (Tamil Nadu) Act III of 1869 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to summonses issued under this Act.
4. Examination of witnesses.
Any officer making an enquiry under this Act may examine orally any person supposed to be acquainted of with the matter under enquiry or any fact relevant thereto, and may reduce into writing any statement made by the person so examined.
Such person shall be bound to answer truly all questions relating to such matter put to him by such officer, other than questions the answers to which would have a tendency to expose him to criminal charge or to a penalty or forfeiture.
No such statement, when taken in the absence of a public servant whose conduct is under enquiry, shall to be used as evidence against such public servant in any judicial proceeding. |
