For the purpose of enforcing the attendance of witnesses, the local limits of the jurisdiction of the…

The Explanation to section 74 provides that, for the purpose of enforcing the attendance of witnesses, the local limits of the jurisdiction of the Registrar of Copyrights shall be the limits of the territory of India. The Registrar can therefore enforce the attendance of a witness from anywhere in India. The power is not confined to the State in which the Copyright Office sits, to any zone, or to the witness's own district.

This supports the Registrar's civil-court powers under section 74, which include summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath. Since the Tribunals Reforms Act, 2021, these powers belong to the Registrar alone (formerly the Appellate Board shared them).