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Evidence Act 1939
49LPutting documents to remote person
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49L Putting documents to remote person
(1) If in the course of examination of a person by a communication link
it is necessary to put a document to the person, a Territory entity
may permit the document to be put to the person:
(a) if the document is at the place where the entity is sitting:
(i) by transmitting by any means (including by the
image of it to the place where the person is giving
evidence or making a submission; and
(ii) by the image transmitted being then put to the person;
or
(b) if the document is at the place where the person is giving
evidence or making a submission:
(i) by putting the document to the person; and
(ii) by then transmitting by any means (including by the
image of the document to the place where the entity is
sitting.
(2) A document put to a person in accordance with subsection (1) is
admissible as evidence without proof that the transmitted video,
electronic or other image of the document is a true copy of the
document.