New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION ACT 1984 - SECT 17

17 Parties may obtain subpoenas

(1) The Court may, on the application of any party to an arbitration agreement, and subject to and in accordance with rules of court, issue a subpoena requiring a person:

(a) to attend for examination before the arbitrator or umpire, or

(b) to produce to the arbitrator or umpire the documents specified in the subpoena, or

(c) to do both of those things.

(2) A person shall not be compelled under any subpoena issued in accordance with subsection (1) to answer any question or produce any document which that person could not be compelled to answer or produce on the trial of an action.