660Notice for non-party production—issue

660 Notice for non-party production—issue (1) At the request of a party to a proceeding, the registrar must, unless the court otherwise orders, issue a notice (a notice for non-party production) requiring a person who is not a party to the proceeding to produce for inspection a document— (a) relating to a matter in issue in the proceeding; and (b) in the person’s possession; and (c) that the person could be required to produce at the trial of the Note 1 See approved form 2.27 (Notice for non-party production) AF2011-51. Note 2 See div 6.3.3 (Rejecting filed documents) for the registrar’s powers to reject documents. (2) The applicant may not require production of a document if there is available to the applicant another reasonably simple and inexpensive way of proving the matter sought to be proved by the document.

Rule 661 (3) For this rule, a matter is in issue until it is— (a) admitted or taken to be admitted; or (b) withdrawn, struck out or otherwise disposed of.