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EVIDENCE ACT 1995 - SECT 166

Definition of request

    In this Division:

"request" means a request that a party (the requesting party ) makes to another party to do one or more of the following:

  (a)   to produce to the requesting party the whole or a part of a specified document or thing;

  (b)   to permit the requesting party, adequately and in an appropriate way, to examine, test or copy the whole or a part of a specified document or thing;

  (c)   to call as a witness a specified person believed to be concerned in production or maintenance of a specified document or thing;

  (d)   to call as a witness a specified person in whose possession or under whose control a specified document or thing is believed to be or to have been at any time;

  (e)   in relation to a document of the kind referred to in paragraph   (b) or (c) of the definition of document in the Dictionary--to permit the requesting party, adequately and in an appropriate way, to examine and test the document and the way in which it was produced and has been kept;

  (f)   in relation to evidence of a previous representation--to call as a witness the person who made the previous representation;

  (g)   in relation to evidence that a person has been convicted of an offence, being evidence to which subsection   92(2) applies--to call as a witness a person who gave evidence in the proceeding in which the person was so convicted.



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