(3) All such powers as are now or may be hereafter vested in the Supreme Court of the Colony or in any Judge thereof on the occasion of any suit or action in respect of the following matters :-- (a) The enforcing the attendance of witnesses and examining them on oath or otherwise as they may think fit. (b) The compelling the production of any documents. (c) The punishing persons guilty of contempt. (d) The ordering an inspection of premises. (e) To enter and view any premises.
(4) To make and publish all such rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary for the conduct of all proceedings before it.
11. Every notice under the hand of the Chairman of the Board may be substituted for and shall be equivalent to any form of process capable of being issued in any suit or action for enforcing the attendance of witnesses, or compelling the production of documents; and any warrant of committal to prison issued for the purpose of enforcing any such powers as aforesaid shall be under the hand of the Chairman and shall not authorize the imprisonment of any offender for a period exceeding three months; and every notice, order or warrant of the Board may be served and executed in the same manner as notices, orders and warrants of the Supreme Court may be served and executed under the procedure for the time being in force relating to civil suits.
12. If in the discharge of the duties devolving upon the Board there shall occur a difference of opinion between the members, the decision of any two of them shall have the same force and effect as if all the members had concurred therein, and any decision arrived at by the Board or a majority thereof shall not be subject to appeal and shall be final as regards all parties interested, and no award of compensation made with respect to the resumption of any land shall be liable to be set aside for irregularity or error in matter of form.
13. In determining claims for compensation by owners in respect of lands resumed under this Ordinance, the Board may award such compensation as they may think fit, may in their discretion take into consideration and receive evidence of any matters or things they may deem just and fair, and may make such deductions in respect of the age, character, insanitary condition and state of repair of the houses on the said lands or otherwise as to them may seem fair or reasonable.
14. In determining claims for compensation by any sub-lessee or tenant of the whole or any portion of any house, entitled to claim under this Ordinance, whose interest has been summarily determined by the resumption of any land under this Ordinance, the Board shall assess such compensation as nearly as may be, as if such interest had been tortiously put an end to or determined by the immediate landlord of the claimant and he had brought an action for damages against such landlord in any Court of law or equity, but no compensation shall be given for any furniture, fittings, mezzanine floors, cocklofts, partitions or articles in any house resumed under this Ordinance which have been removed, destroyed or damaged during the prevalence of the Bubonic Plague by reason of any operations for the cleansing or disinfecting of such house; and no compensation shall be given in respect of the occupation of, or of rents derived from, the letting of any house or portion of a house declared upon the list published under the provisions of section 6 of this Ordinance to have been found to be unfit from any cause for human habitation.
15. Every award of the Board shall state-
(a) The full amount awarded to the owner by way of compensation for the resumption of his land and to each of the persons interested therein who have made claims,
(b) The persons to whom it is payable.
(c) The proportions in which it is payable to such persons.
(d) In respect of what interest, right, easement or otherwise it is awarded.
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