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Magistrates Court (Civil Division) Rules 1998
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### 56 Contents of affidavit
> > (1) An affidavit is to be confined to facts to which the person making the affidavit is able to depose from his or her own knowledge.
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> > (2) An affidavit filed in relation to an interlocutory application may contain statements based on information received by the person making the affidavit, and believed by that person to be true, if the affidavit also contains –
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> > > > (a) the sources of the information received; and
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> > > > (b) the grounds for believing thatthe information is true.