The West Pakistan Departmental Inquiries (Powers) Act, 1958

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THE WEST PAKISTAN DEPARTMENTAL INQUIRIES (POWERS) ACT, 1958. 
 
CONTENTS. 
PREAMBLE. 
 
SECTIONS. 
 
1. Short title and extent. 
2. Power to summon witnesses and to compel production of documents. 
3. Penalties. 
4. Repeal. 
 
 
  
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1THE WEST PAKISTAN DEPARTMENTAL INQUIRIES 
(POWERS) ACT, 1958.  
 
(West Pakistan Act XLV of 1958)  
[23rd September, 1958]. 
 
An Act to confer powers for compelling attendance of witnesses and 
production of documents on officers conducting departmental 
 inquiries against Government servants in the  
Province of West Pakistan. 
 
 Whereas it is expedient to confer powers to compel attendance of 
witnesses and production of documents on officers conducting 
departmental inquiries against Government servants in the Province of 
West Pakistan; 
Preamble. 
  
 It is hereby enacted as follows:— 
 
1. (1) This Act may be called the West Pakistan Departmental 
Inquiries (Powers) Act, 1958. 
 
Short title and 
extent. 
 2[(2) It extends to the whole of the 3[Province of the Khyber 
Pakhtunkhwa] except the Tribal Areas]. 
 
2. An officer conducting a departmental inquiry against a 
Government servant under any rules for the time being in force, may 
exercise the same powers for compelling the attendance of witnesses 4[ , ] 
production of documents 5 and issuing commissions for the examination 
of witnesses] as are exercisable by a civil court under the Code of Civil 
Procedure, 1908: 
 
Power to summon 
witness and to 
compel production 
of documents. 
 Provided that the process issued by the officer conducting the 
departmental inquiry shall be served and executed by the civil court 
having jurisdiction in the place where the witness or the person in 
possession of the documents, as the case may be, resides. 
 
3. Any person disobeying a process issued by an officer in exercise of 
the powers conferred by section 2 shall be liable to the same penalties to 
which he would have been liable if he had disobeyed a process issued by 
the civil court. 
 
Penalties. 
4. The West Pakistan Departmental Inquiries (Powers) Ordinance, 
1958, is hereby repealed. 
Repeal. 
 
                                                 
1 For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Gazette of West Pakistan, 1958, Extraordinary, p 1118. 
2 Subs, by W. P. Ord- VII of 1964 s. 2, Sch. 
3 Substituted vide Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Act. No. IV of 2011. 
4 Ins. by W.P. Ord. Ill of 1961. 
5 Ins. by W.P. Ord. Ill of 1961.