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Evidence Act 2001
166Definition of request
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### 166 Definition of request
> In this Division,
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> > ***request*** means a request that a party (the requesting party) makes to another party to do one or more of the following:
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> > > > (a) to produce to the requesting party the whole or a part of a specified document or thing;
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> > > > (b) to permit the requesting party, adequately and in an appropriate way, to examine, test or copy the whole or a part of a specified document or thing;
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> > > > (c) to call as a witness a specified person believed to be concerned in the production or maintenance of a specified document or thing;
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> > > > (d) to call as a witness a specified person in whose possession or under whose control a specified document or thing is believed to be or to have been at any time;
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> > > > (e) in relation to a document of the kind referred to in [paragraph (a)](#GS3@Gs1@Nd35957435763889@Hpa@EN) or [(b)](#GS3@Gs1@Nd35957435763889@Hpb@EN) of the [definition of ***document***](#GS3@Gs1@Nd35957435763889@EN) , to permit the requesting party, adequately and in an appropriate way, to examine and test the document and the way in which it was produced and has been kept;
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> > > > (f) in relation to evidence of a previous representation, to call as a witness the person who made the previous representation;
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> > > > (g) in relation to evidence that a person has been convicted of an offence, being evidence to which [section 92(2)](#GS92@Gs2@EN) applies, to call as a witness a person who gave evidence in the proceeding in which the person was so convicted.