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(2) Where any dispute is referred under the foregoing sub-section, for decision to the Registrar's nominee or broad of nominees, the Registrar may at any time, for reasons to be recorded in writing with-draw such dispute from his nominee or board of nominees, and may decide the dispute himself or refer it again for decision to any other nominee, or board of nominees, appointed by him.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 91, the Registrar may, if he thinks, fit, suspend proceedings in regard to any dispute, if the question at issue between a society and a claimant or between different claimants, is one involving complicated questions of law and fact, until the question has been tried by a regular suit instituted by one of the parties or by the society.
(2) Except with the permission of the Registrar or his nominee or board of nominees as the case may be no party shall be represented at the hearing of a dispute by a legal practitioner."

Sub-section (3) of Section 94 authorises the Registrar, his nominee or the board of nominees to join or substitute new parties. Section 95 authorises the Registrar or his nominee or board of nominees to pass an order of attachment and other interlocutory orders. Section 96 provides :

"When a dispute is referred to arbitration the Registrar or his nominee or board of nominees may, after giving a reasonable opportunity to the parties to the dispute to be heard, make an award on the dispute, on the expenses incurred by the parties to the dispute in connection with the proceedings, and fees and expenses payable to the Registrar or his nominee or as the case may be, board of nominees. Such an award shall not be invalid merely on the ground that it was made after the expiry of the period fixed for deciding the dispute by the Registrar and shall, subject to appeal or review of revision, be binding on the parties to the dispute."

Section 97 provides :

"Any party aggrieved by any decision of the Registrar or his nominee or board of nominees under the last preceding section, or an order passed under Section 95 may, X X X appeal to the Tribunal."

Section 98 provides that every order passed by the Registrar or his nominee or board of nominees or in appeal therefrom shall, if not carried out, on a certificate signed by the Registrar, be deemed to be a decree of a Civil Court, and shall be executed in the same manner as a decree of such court or be executed according to the law and under the rules for the time being in force for the recovery of arrears of land revenue. By Section 99 a private transfer or delivery of, or encumbrance of charge on, property made or crated after the issue of the certificate of the Registrar under Section 98 shall be null and void as against the society on whose application the certificate was issued.

13. The nominee of the Registrar acting under Section 96 performs the functions substantially of an arbitrator to whom a dispute is referred for adjudication. The Registrar may appoint a single nominee or a board of nominees and may at any time, for reasons to be recorded in writing, withdraw such dispute from the nominee or board of nominees, and may decide the dispute himself, or refer it again for decision to another nominee, or board of nominees, appointed by him. Under sub-section (3) of Section 93, it is open to the Registrar to suspend proceedings in regard to any dispute if the question at issue between a society and a claimant or between different claimant, is one involving complicated question of law of fact. The jurisdiction of the nominee or board of nominees arises by reason not of investment by statute, but by appointment made by the Registrar who exercises control ever the proceeding. The nominee therefore derives his authority from his appointment by the Registrar : the registrar entitled to withdraw his authority; and the Registrar may fix the time within which a dispute shall be disposed of : his adjudication is again called an award. The nominee is even entitled to make a provision for the expenses payable to the Registrar or to himself. It is true that the procedure of the nominee is assimilated to the procedure followed in the trial of a Civil Proceeding. The nominee has the power to summon witnesses, to compel them to produce documents and he is required to hear the dispute in the manner prescribed by the Code of Civil Procedure. Thereby he is required to act judicially, i.e., fairly and impartially : but the obligation to act judicially will not necessarily make him a court within the meaning of Section 195 of the code. The position of a nominee of the Registrar is analogous to that of an arbitrator designated under a statutory arbitration to which the provisions of Section 47 of the Arbitration Act, 1940, apply.