Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE (BUSINESS RECORDS) INTERIM ARRANGEMENTS ACT - SECT 21

(1) The Administrator may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing matters -

(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the Regulations may make provisions for or in relation to -

(a) the giving by a party, who proposes to tender a statement under section 5 or evidence under section 8, to the Court or to other parties of notice of his intention to do so and of particulars of the statement of evidence (including copies of a statement or document);

(b) the giving by a party, who has received notice from another party of his intention to tender a statement under section 5 or evidence under section 8, to the Court or to other parties of notice of his intention to dispute the statement or evidence and of particulars of the grounds on which he intends to dispute the statement or evidence;

(c) the production by a party, who proposes to tender a statement under section 5 or evidence under section 8, or who proposes to adduce evidence in answer to such a statement or evidence, to the Court or to other parties for inspection of a document he proposes to tender or a document related to such a statement or evidence he proposes to tender;

(d) the making by a Court of orders requiring a person not a party to a proceeding in the Court to produce to the Court, or to parties to the proceeding, for inspection a document which a party desires to inspect for the purpose of the application of this Act to the proceeding;

(e) the making by the Supreme Court of orders in respect of proceedings in a Court, other than the Supreme Court, requiring a person not a party to a proceeding in such a Court to produce to the Court or to the Supreme Court or to parties to the proceeding for inspection a document which a party desires to inspect for the purpose of the application of this Act to the proceeding;

(f) the proof of a matter mentioned in section 5, 7 or 8 by affidavit or statutory declaration provided that such regulation shall, if it is not otherwise so provided, provide for the attendance at the proceeding of the deponent or maker of such affidavit or statutory declaration for cross-examination by a party who desires to cross-examine him; and

(g) the making by a Court of orders under this Act at any stage of a legal proceeding.