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Evidence (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011
166Definition of request
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166 Definition of request
In this Division:
request means a request that a party (the requesting party)
makes to another party to do one or more of the following:
(a) to produce to the requesting party the whole or a part of a
specified document or thing;
(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;
(c) to call as a witness a specified person believed to be
concerned in the production or maintenance of a specified
document or thing;
(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;
(e) in relation to a document of the kind referred to in
paragraph (b) or (c) of the definition of document in the
Dictionary – 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;
(f) in relation to evidence of a previous representation – to call as
a witness the person who made the previous representation;
(g) in relation to evidence that a person has been convicted of an
offence, being evidence to which section 92(2) applies – to
call as a witness a person who gave evidence in the
proceeding in which the person was so convicted.
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