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Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999
sec.402Recording evidence
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### sec.402 Recording evidence
An examiner must ensure, if practicable, evidence given at an examination in Queensland is recorded under the Recording of Evidence Act 1962 or recorded in another way and authenticated by the examiner.
The examiner must authenticate and sign any deposition or other recording.
If evidence given at an examination is recorded in a deposition, it must—
contain, in question and answer form, the evidence of the person examined; and
be transcribed and read over by or to the witness in the examiner’s presence and in the presence of such of the parties as wish to attend; and
be signed by the witness, or, if the witness refuses to sign the deposition, by the examiner for the witness.
(sec.402-ssec.1) An examiner must ensure, if practicable, evidence given at an examination in Queensland is recorded under the Recording of Evidence Act 1962 or recorded in another way and authenticated by the examiner.
(sec.402-ssec.2) The examiner must authenticate and sign any deposition or other recording.
(sec.402-ssec.3) If evidence given at an examination is recorded in a deposition, it must— contain, in question and answer form, the evidence of the person examined; and be transcribed and read over by or to the witness in the examiner’s presence and in the presence of such of the parties as wish to attend; and be signed by the witness, or, if the witness refuses to sign the deposition, by the examiner for the witness.
- (a) contain, in question and answer form, the evidence of the person examined; and
- (b) be transcribed and read over by or to the witness in the examiner’s presence and in the presence of such of the parties as wish to attend; and
- (c) be signed by the witness, or, if the witness refuses to sign the deposition, by the examiner for the witness.