Court of Inquiry (Sec-6):

_{(1)             The appropriate Government may as occasion arises by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute a Court of inquiry for inquiring into any matter appearing to be connected with or relevant to an industrial dispute.}

_{(2)             A Court may consist of one independent person or of such number of independent persons as the appropriate Government may think fit and where a Court consists of two or more members, one of them shall be appointed as the Chairman.}

_{(3)             A Court, having the prescribed quorum, may act, notwithstanding the absence of the chairman or any of its members of any vacancy in its number :}

_{Provided that, if the appropriate Government notifies the Court that the service of the Chairman has ceased to be available, the Court shall not act until a new Chairman has been appointed.}