4. Place of sitting and other matters relating to District Forum section 14(3).- (1) The office of the District Forum shall be located at Chandigarh. (2) The working days and the office hours of the District Forum shall be the same as that of Union Territory Administration of Chandigarh. (3) The official seal and emblem of the District Forum shall be as such as the Union Territory, may specify. (4) Sitting of the District Forum, as and when necessary, shall be convened by the President. (5) No act or proceedings of the District Forum shall be invalid by reason only of the existence of any vacancy among its members or any defect in its constitution. (6) The Chandigarh Administration shall appoint such staff, as may be necessary to assist the District Forum in its day to day work and perform such other functions as are provided under these rules, or assigned to it by the President. (7) Where the opposite party admits the allegation made by the complainant, the District Forum shall decide the complaint on the basis of the merits of the case and documents present before it. (8) If during the proceedings conducted under section 13, the District Forum fixes a date for hearing of the parties, it shall be obligatory on the complainant and opposite party or its autho¬rised agent to appear before the District Forum on such date of hearing or any other date to which hearing could be adjourned. Where the complainant or his authorised agent fails to appear before the District Forum on such day, the District Forum may in its discretion either dismiss the complaint for default or decide it on merits. Where the opposite party or its authorised agent fails to appear on the day of hearing, the District Forum may decide the complaint ex parte. (9) While proceeding under sub-rule (8), the District Forum may, on such terms as it may think fit and at any stage, adjourn the hearing of the complaint but not more than one adjournment shall ordinarily be given and the complaint should be decided within 90 days from the date of notice received by the opposite party where complaint does not require analysis or testing of the goods and within 150 days if it requires analysis or testing of the goods. (10) Orders of the District Forum shall be signed and dated by the members of the District Forum constituting the Bench and shall be communicated to the parties free of charge. | 