1. In this Civil Revision, the respondent in an application for compensation under S 110A of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 before the Claims Tribunal, Ernakulam challenges the order of the Tribunal, condoning the delay in preferring the claim. The point that arises for consideration is whether the Claims Tribunal is a Court to make its orders amenable to the revisional jurisdiction of this Court under S.115 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

2. A number of decisions were cited at the bar. We will refer to them one by one. In Bharat Bank v.Employees of the Bharat Bank (AIR.1950 SC 188) Kania C. J. has said:

"While the powers of the Industrial Tribunal in some respects are different from those of an ordinary Civil Court and it has jurisdiction and powers to give reliefs which a Civil Court administering the law of the land (for instance ordering the reinstatement of a workman) does not possess in the discharge of its duties it is essentially working as a judicial body Having considered all the provisions of the Act it seems to me clear that the Tribunal is discharging functions very near those of a Court, although it is not a court in the technical sense of the word." . (Para 2