Queensland Consolidated Regulations

CRIMINAL PRACTICE RULES 1999 - REG 55

55 Production, custody and disposal of exhibits and other documents

(1) A trial judge may make an order the trial judge considers appropriate about the production at trial, custody or disposal of any of the following items—

(a) an exhibit;

(b) a jury note;

(c) a document marked for identification, other than a jury note.

(2) If an order to the contrary is not made under subrule (1) or rule 100 (1) about the custody or disposal of the item, the proper officer of the court—

(a) for a concluded trial, may—

(i) if the item is a jury note—destroy the item; or

(ii) otherwise—return the item to the party who tendered it; or

(b) otherwise—must hold the item in safekeeping.