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The procedure of the Board.
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8.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board shall regulate their own procedure.
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(2) The Board may act notwithstanding one or more vacancies in the Minister's panel or the officers' panel or both those panels.
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(3) The Chairman shall preside at every sitting of the Board.
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(4) The decision of the Board on any application, claim or question heard and determined by them under this Act shall be in accordance with the opinion of the majority of the members of the Board, but such decision shall be pronounced by the Chairman and no opinion assenting to, dissenting from, or commenting on such decision shall be pronounced by any other member of the Board.
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(5) The Board shall have all such powers, rights and privileges for enforcing the attendance of witnesses and examining them on oath and for compelling the production of documents as are vested in the High Court or a Judge thereof in respect of the trial of an action, and a summons signed by the Chairman shall be equivalent to and have the like effect as a formal process issued by the High Court for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or compelling the production of documents.
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(6) If any person on being duly summoned under this section to attend as a witness before the Board makes default in so attending or, being in attendance before the Board as a witness, refuses to take an oath required by the Chairman to be taken by him or refuses to produce any document in his power or control required by the Chairman to be produced by him or refuses to answer any question required by the Chairman to be answered by him, the Chairman may certify the offence of such person to the High Court and that Court may, after such inquiry as it thinks proper to make, punish or take steps for the punishment of that person in like manner as if he had been guilty of contempt of the said Court.
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