Gujarat Co-operative Societies Act, 1961
(1) the Registrar, or his nominees or board of nominees, hearing a dispute under section 98 shall hear the dispute in the manner prescribed and shall have power to summon and enforce attendance of witnesses including the parties interested or any of them and to compel them to give evidence, and to compel the production of documents by the same means and as far as possible in the same manner as provided in the case of a Civil Court by the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. (2) Except where a dispute involves complicated of law or fact, no legal practitioner in his capacity as a legal practitioner or as person holding a power of attorney shall be permitted to appear on behalf of any party at the hearing of a dispute. (3) (a) If the Registrar or his nominee or board of nominees is satisfied that a person, whether he be a member of the society or not, has acquired any interest in the property of a person who is a party to a dispute, he may order that the person who has acquired the interest in the property of a person who is a party to a dispute, he may order that the person who has acquired the interest in the property may join as a party to the dispute; and any decision that may be passed on the reference by the Registrar or his nominee or board of nominees shall be binding on the party so joined, in the same manner as if he were an original party to the dispute. (b) Where a dispute has been instated, in the name of the wrong person or where all the defendants have been not include, the Registrar or his nominee or board of nominees may, at any stage of the hearing of the dispute if satisfied that the mistake was bona fie, order any other person to be substituted or added as a plaintiff or a defendant, upon such terms as he thinks just. (c) The Registrar, his nominee or board of nominees may, at any stage of the proceedings, either upon or without the application of either party, and on such terms as may appear to the Registrar, his nominee or board of nominees, as the case may be, to be just, order that the name of any party improperly joined whether as plaintiff or defendant be struck pout, and that the name of any person who ought to have been joined whether as plaintiff or defendant or whose presence before the Registrar, his nominee or board of nominees, as the case may be, may be necessary in order to enable Registrar, his nominee or board of nominees effectively and completely to adjudicate upon and settle all the questions involved in the dispute, be added. (d) Any person who is a party to the dispute and entitled to more than one relief in respect of the same cause of action, may claim all or any of such reliefs; but if he omits to claim all such reliefs, he shall not forward claim for any relief so omitted, except with the leave of the Registrar, his nominee or board of nominees.