Northern Territory Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2014
89Power to require person to give evidence or produce
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89 Power to require person to give evidence or produce evidentiary material (1) The Tribunal may, on the application of a party to a proceeding or on its own initiative, issue a summons to a person (the recipient) requiring the recipient to appear before the Tribunal at a specified time and place to give evidence or produce evidentiary material. (2) A summons to produce evidentiary material may, instead of requiring production of the material before the Tribunal, provide for the production of the material to: (a) the Registrar; or (b) another person specified in the summons. (3) A party to the proceeding or the recipient may apply to the Tribunal for an order to set aside or vary the summons. (4) On an application under subsection (3), the Tribunal may set aside or vary the summons.
Northern Territory Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2014 37 (5) The Tribunal may make an order requiring the payment to the recipient of an amount in respect of the recipient's reasonable costs of complying with the summons by: (a) if the summons was issued on the application of a party to the proceeding – the party; or (b) otherwise – the parties to the proceeding in the proportions determined by the Tribunal. (6) The Tribunal may make an order under subsection (5) on the application of the recipient or on its own initiative.