9B

9B Copies and electronic form of documents may be produced

(1) Unless a witness summons specifically requires the production of the original, an addressee may produce a copy of a document required to be produced by a witness summons.

(2) A copy of a document may be—

Rule 9B(2)(b) amended by S.R. No. 3/2019 rule 6(1)(a).

(b) in an electronic form on a USB or CD-ROM in any of the following formats—

(i) .doc and .docx—Microsoft Word documents;

(ii) .pdf—Adobe Acrobat documents;

(iii) .xls and .xlsx—Microsoft Excel spreadsheets;

(iv) .jpg—image files;

(v) .rtf—rich text format;

(vi) .gif—graphics interchange format;

Rule 9B(2)
(b)(vii) amended by S.R. No. 3/2019 rule 6(1)(b).

(vii) .tif—tagged image format; or

Rule 9B(2)
(b)(viii) revoked by S.R. No. 3/2019 rule 6(1)(c).

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Rule 9B(2)(c) substituted by S.R. No. 3/2019 rule 6(2).

(3) Even if a witness summons specifically requires the production of the original document, the addressee, with the consent of the issuing party, may produce a copy, instead of the original, of the document required to be produced.

Rule 9C inserted by S.R. No. 185/2018 rule 7.