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Landlord and Tenant.
(2) Every tribunal shall have and may exercise any of the powers, rights, and privileges following—
(a) to enforce the attendance of parties and witnesses and examine them upon oath or otherwise;
(b) to compel the discovery, inspection and production of documents;
(c) to enter and view or to order the inspection of any premises the subject matter of any application; (d) to call in the aid of one or more assessors or experts to assist in the determination of any application.
(3) A summons or order under the hand of the presiding member of any tribunal or of such magistrate as aforesaid, as the case may be, issued or made for the purpose of exercising any of the foregoing powers, rights and privileges shall be of like force and effect as the corresponding form of process issued in any action or suit for the like purpose and may be enforced by a bailiff or other officer of the court in like manner as such form of process would be enforced.
(4) Where a tribunal consists of members of the tenancy tribunal panel the decision or order of a majority of members of such tribunal shall be deemed the decision or order of the tribunal. If the tribunal is unable to agree upon a decision or order the tribunal shall state in the form of a special case for decision by the court, the matter upon which an agreement cannot be reached.
(5) Any tribunal may at any stage in the proceedings before it state in the form of a special case for the opinion of the court any question of law arising in the course of the proceedings.
(6) (a) Every member of the tenancy tribunal panel shall on his appointment to be a member of a tribunal take oath in the following form—
"I, swear by Almighty God that I will well and truly adjudicate upon all matters before the tenancy tribunal without fear or favour affection or ill-will."
(b) Every interpreter at any proceedings before the tribunal shall before he interprets have sworn in the following manner-
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CAP. 255]
[8. 27 cont.]
Landlord and Tenant.
(2) Every tribunal shall have and may exercise any of the powers, rights, and privileges following—
(a) to enforce the attendance of parties and witnesses
and examine them upon oath or otherwise;
(b) to compel the discovery, inspection and production
of documents;
(c) to enter and view or to order the inspection of any
premises the subject matter of any application; (d) to call in the aid of one or more assessors or experts to assist in the determination of any application.
(3) A summons or order under the hand of the presiding member of any tribunal or of such magistrate as aforesaid, as the case may be, issued or made for the purpose of exercising any of the foregoing powers, rights and privileges shall be of like force and effect as the corresponding form of process issued in any action or suit for the like purpose and may be enforced by a bailiff or other officer of the court in like manner as such form of process would be enforced.
(4) Where a tribunal consists of members of the tenancy tribunal panel the decision or order of a majority of members of such tribunal shall be deemed the decision or order of the tribunal. If the tribunal is unable to agree upon a decision or order the tribunal shall state in the form of a special case for decision by the court, the matter upon which an agreement cannot be reached.
(5) Any tribunal may at any stage in the proceedings before it state in the form of a special case for the opinion of the court any question of law arising in the course of the proceedings.
(6) (a) Every member of the tenancy tribunal panel shall on his appointment to be a member of a tribunal take oath in the following form—
"I,
swear by Almighty God that I will well and truly adjudicate upon all matters before the tenancy tribunal without fear or favour affection or ill-will."
(b) Every interpreter at any proceedings before the tribunal shall before he interprets have sworn in the following manner-
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