The Code on Social Security (Gujarat) Rules, 2023
Rule 48. Power of summary examination
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(1) The Competent Authority may, during ă local inspection or at any other time, save at a formal hearing of a case pending before him, examine summarily any person likely to be above to give information relative to such case, whether such person has been, or is to be called as a witness in the case or not, and whether any or all of the parties are present or not.
(2) No oath shall be administered to a person examined under sub-rule (1).
(3) A statement made by a person examined under sub-rule (1), if reduced to writing shall, not be signed by the person making the statement, nor shall it, except as hereinafter provided, be incorporated in the record or utilized by the Competent Authority for the purpose of arriving at a decision in the case.
(4) If a witness who has been examined under sub-rule (1) makes in his evidence any y statement contradicting in material particulars any statement made by him in such examination and reduced to writing, the Competent Authority may call his attention to such statement and shall in that case direct that the parties be furnished with the relevant part of such statement of the purpose of using it in examining or cross-examining the witness.
(5) Any statement or part of a statement which is furnished to the parties under sub-rule
(4) shall be in incorporated in the record.
(6) Where a case is settled by agreement between the parties, the Competent Authority may incorporate in the record any statement made by a person examined under sub-rule (1) and may utilise such statement for the purpose of justifying his acceptance of, or refusal to accept, the agreement reached.