Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE AND PROCEDURE (NEW ZEALAND) ACT 1994 - SECT 22

             (1)  Subject to subsection (2), the Federal Court of Australia, and any court of a State or Territory that is a court specified in regulations made for the purposes of this subsection, are authorised to receive a document or thing that is required by a subpoena to be produced.

             (2)  If, in relation to such a court, the regulations so provide, this section only applies in relation to specified locations of the court's registry.

             (3)  If a document or thing is lodged at the registry of such a court in compliance with a subpoena, the Registrar of the court must, as soon as practicable after lodgment, cause:

                     (a)  the Registrar of the court that issued the subpoena to be informed, by fax or electronic mail, that the document or thing has been so lodged; and

                     (b)  the document or thing to be transmitted to that court.