The Departmental Inquiries (Enforcement of Attendance of Witnesses and Production of Documents) Act, 1972 – All Sections

An Act to provide for the enforcement of attendance of witnesses and production of documents in certain departmental inquiries and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

The Departmental Inquiries (Enforcement of Attendance of Witnesses and Production of Documents) Act, 1972 has 7 sections in 1 chapters. Each link below opens the official text of that section. Official PDF on India Code.

  • Section 1 – Short title and extent
  • Section 2 – Departmental inquiries to which the Act shall apply
  • Section 3 – Definitions
  • Section 4 – Power of Central Government to authorise the exercise of powers specified in section 5
  • Section 5 – Power of authorised inquiring authority to enforce attendance of witnesses and production of documents
  • Section 6 – Territorial limits in which powers specified in section 5 may be exercised
  • Section 7 – Power to make rules

Related posts:

  1. Section 5 of the Departmental Inquiries (Enforcement of Attendance of Witnesses and Production of Documents) Act, 1972 – Power of authorised inquiring authority to enforce attendance of witnesses and production of documents
  2. Section 2 of the Departmental Inquiries (Enforcement of Attendance of Witnesses and Production of Documents) Act, 1972 – Departmental inquiries to which the Act shall apply
  3. Section 4 of the Departmental Inquiries (Enforcement of Attendance of Witnesses and Production of Documents) Act, 1972 – Power of Central Government to authorise the exercise of powers specified in section 5
  4. Section 3 of the Departmental Inquiries (Enforcement of Attendance of Witnesses and Production of Documents) Act, 1972 – Definitions