Section 6

to procure and receive all such evidence, written or oral, and to examine all such persons as witness as the Tribunal may think it necessary or desirable to procure or examine;

to require the evidence (whether written or oral) of any witness to be made on oath or affirmation (such oath or affirmation to be that which could be required of the witness if he were giving evidence in the High Court) or by statutory declaration;

subject to subsection (2) to summon any person to attend any meeting of the Tribunal to give evidence or produce any document or other thing in his possession and to examine him as a witness or require him to produce any document or other thing in his possession;

to hear and determine the dispute in regard to the anomaly referred to it notwithstanding the failure of any party to submit any written statement required by the Tribunal within such time as may be prescribed by the Chairman or in the absence of any party to the dispute who has been served with a summons or notice to appear;

to issue a warrant of arrest to compel the attendance of any person who, after having been summoned to attend, fails to do so, and does not excuse such failure to the satisfaction of the Tribunal;

notwithstanding any written law relating to evidence, to admit any evidence, whether written or oral, which might be inadmissible in civil or criminal proceedings;

to conduct its proceedings or any part thereof in private;

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to admit or exclude the public from the proceedings or any part thereof; and

No public officer shall be liable to produce any document in proceedings before the Tribunal which in the opinion of the Government is not in the public interest to produce; the decision of the Government in this regard shall not be liable to be questioned or reviewed by the Tribunal or any court or any authority.