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CHAPTER
III
FUNCTIONS
AND POWERS OF THE COMMISSION
9.
Functions of the Commission -
(1)
The Commission shall examine requests for inclusion
of any class of citizens as a backward class in
the lists and hear complaints of over-inclusion
or under-inclusion of any backward class in such
lists and tender such advice to the Central Government
as it deems appropriate.
(2)
The advice of the Commission shall ordinarily be
binding upon the Central Government.
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Powers
of the Commission - The Commission shall, while
performing its functions under sub-section (1) of
section 9, have all the powers of a civil court
trying a suit and in particular, in respect of the
following matters, namely:-
(a)
summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person
from any part of India and examining him on oath;
(b)
requiring the discovery and production of any
document;
(c)
receiving evidence on affidavits;
(d)
requisitioning any public record or copy thereof
from any court of office;
(e)
issuing commissions for the examination
of witnesses and documents; and
(f)
any other matter which may be prescribed.
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Periodic
revision of lists by the Central Government
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(1)
The Central Government may at any time, and shall,
at the expiration of ten years from the coming into
force of this Act and every succeeding period of
ten years thereafter, undertake revision of the
lists with a view to excluding from such lists those
classes who have ceased to be backward classes or
for including in such lists new backward classes.
(2)
The Central Government shall, while undertaking
any revision referred to in sub-section (1) consult
the Commission.
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