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(7) Notwithstanding any enactment to the contrary no member of the reserve shall be entitled to quit the same prior to disbandment without the previous sanction in writing of the Governor.

Procedure.

10.- (1) Any inquiry by the compulsory service tribunal and any appeal to the appeal tribunal under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be conducted in public unless on any occasion the majority of the members of the tribunal then present are of opinion that the inquiry or the appeal on that occasion should be conducted wholly or partly in private.

(8) In all other respects any inquiry or appeal under the provisions of this ordinance may be conducted in such manner as the inquiring or appellate authority, as the case may be, shall see fit: Provided that all cuentions shall be decided by a majority of votes, including the vote of the chairman, and whenever the votee are equal the chairman shall have a casting vote.

13.- (1) The appeal tribunal and the compulsory service tribunal shall, for the purpose of any inquiry which such tribunal is authorized under the provis ons of this Ordinance to make, have all the powers of the Supreme Court for

(2)

General

powers of appeal and compulsory service tribunals.

enforcing the attendance of witnesses and examing them on oath or otherwise;

and

(b) compelling the production of documents;

(c) unishing persons guilty of contempt.

(2) Every British subject ordered to attend before the appeal tribunal or the compulsory service tribunal and every civil servant whose case may be inquired into by the Governor under the provisions of this Ordinance shall, on osth if so required, truthfully and fully anewer all inquiries which may be addrosz a to such ritish subject or civil servant by such tribunal or the Governor, as the case may be, and shall produce any documents in his possession or under his control which such tribunal or the Governor, as the case may be, may order such British subject or civil servant to produce:

Provided that he may decline to answer any question or to produce any document which he could properly decline to answer or aroduce in a court of law.

(3) If any such British subject or civil servant, as the case may be, fails to comply with any of the provisions of sub-section (2), he shall upon sumary conviction be liable

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