Clause 43

to procure and receive all such evidence, written or oral, and to examine all such persons as witnesses as the Court 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 or by statutory declaration;

to summon any person to attend before the Court or 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 issue a warrant of arrest to compel the attendance of any person who, after being summoned to attend, fails to do so and who does not excuse such failure to the satisfaction of the Court and to order him to pay all costs which may have been occasioned in compelling his attendance or by reason of his refusal to obey the summons; and

to exercise the powers of a Magistrate’s Court for the purpose of giving effect to a warrant of arrest or order of imprisonment and of a court under Chapter XXXII of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 132).