Queensland Consolidated Regulations

CRIMINAL PRACTICE RULES 1999 - REG 40

40 Service—intellectually impaired persons

(1) A person serving a subpoena on an intellectually impaired person who is under the care of an adult must serve it instead on the adult.

(2) In this rule—

"intellectually impaired person" means a person who has a disability that—

(a) is attributable to an intellectual, psychiatric, cognitive or neurological impairment or a combination of the impairments; and

(b) results in—

(i) a substantial reduction of the person’s capacity for communication, social interaction or learning; and

(ii) the person needing support.