53Compliance with a summons to produce a document or thing

53 Compliance with a summons to produce a document or thing

(1)  A person is to comply with a summons to produce a document or thing –

(a) by attending at the date, time and place specified in the summons for production and producing the summons, or a copy of it, and the document or thing to the Court or to the officer of the Court nominated in the summons; or

(b) by delivering or sending the summons, or a copy of it, and the document or thing to the district registrar so that they are received not less than 2 clear days before the date specified in the summons for attendance and production.

(2)  In the case of a summons that requires a person to both give evidence and produce a document or thing, production of a summons, or a copy of it, and the document or thing in either of the ways specified in subrule (1) does not discharge the person from the requirement to appear and give evidence before the Court in accordance with the summons.

(3)  If a person produces a document or thing in accordance with subrule (1) , the district registrar must, if requested by the person, give a receipt for the document or thing to the person.

(4)  If a person produces more than one document or thing in accordance with subrule (1) , the person must, if requested to do so by the district registrar, provide a list of the documents or things produced.

(5)  Subject to a direction to the contrary by the Court, a person may produce a copy, instead of the original, of any document required to be produced by a summons unless the summons requires the production of the original.

(6)  A person may, at the time of production, inform the district registrar in writing that any document or copy of a document produced under a summons need not be returned and may be destroyed.