Copyright Ordinance, 1962 — section 78

78. Registrar and Board to possess certain powers of civil court..—The 1[Register] and the Board shall have the powers of a civil court when trying a suit under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Act V of 1908), in respect of the following, namely:

(a)sommoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath:

(b)requiring the discovery and production of any document;

(c)receiving evidence on affidavits;

(d)issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses or documents;

(e)requisitioning any public record or copy thereof from any court or office;

(f)any other matter of procedure which may be prescribed. Explanation.__ For the purpose of enforcing the attendance of witnesses, the local limits of the jurisdiction of the Registrar or the Board, as the case may be, shall be the whole of Pakistan.