Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 · The industrial employment (standing orders) act, 1946
Section 11: Certifying Officers and appellate authorities to have powers of civil court
The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 was repealed and replaced by the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 from 21 November 2025. It still applies to matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides.
[(1)] Every Certifying Officer and appellate authority shall have all the powers of a Civil Court for the purposes of receiving evidence, administering oaths, enforcing the attendance of witnesses, and compelling the
discovery and production of documents, and shall be deemed to be a civil court within the meaning of [sections 345 and 346 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).] [(2) Clerical or arithmetical mistakes in any order passed by a Certifying Officer or appellate authority, or errors arising therein from any accidental slip or omission may, at any time, be corrected by that Officer or authority or the successor in office of such Officer or authority, as the case may be.]
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 11
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