Where any authority (by
whatever name called), other than a Commission appointed under section 3, has been or is set up
under any resolution or order of the appropriate Government for the purpose of making an inquiry
into any definite matter of public importance and that Government is of opinion that all or any of the
provisions of this Act should be made applicable to that authority, that Government may, subject to
the prohibition contained in the proviso to sub section (1) of section 3, by notification in the Official
Gazette, direct that the said provisions of this Act shall apply to that authority, and on the issue of
such a notification, that authority shall be deemed to be a Commission appointed under section 3 for
the purposes of this Act.
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