Section 5(1)(a) in Uttar Pradesh Public Service (Tribunals) Act, 1976
(a)The Tribunal shall not be bound by the procedure laid down in the code of civil procedure, 1908, or the rules of evidence contained in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, but shall be guided by the principles of natural justice, and subject to the provisions of this section and of any rules made under section 7, the Tribunal shall have power to regulate its own procedure (including the fixing of places and times of its sittings and deciding whether to sit in public or in private: