New South Wales Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE ON COMMISSION ACT 1995 - SECT 20

20 Orders for taking evidence outside NSW

(1) In any proceeding before a superior court, the court may, if it appears in the interests of justice to do so, make an order relating to a person outside the State:

(a) for examination of the person on oath or affirmation at any place outside the State before a judge of the court, an officer of the court or such other person as the court may appoint, or

(b) for issue of a commission for examination of the person on oath or affirmation at any place outside the State, or

(c) for issue of a letter of request to the judicial authorities of a place outside the State to take the evidence of a person or cause it to be taken.

(2) In deciding whether it is in the interests of justice to make such an order, the matters to which the superior court is to have regard include the following:

(a) whether the person is willing or able to come to the State to give evidence in the proceeding,

(b) whether the person will be able to give evidence material to any issue to be tried in the proceeding,

(c) whether, having regard to the interests of the parties to the proceeding, justice will be better served by making or refusing to make the order.