Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts16. Evidentiary value of certified copy, &c., of depositions
(1) Where a document purports to be -
(a) a transcript of the record of the depositions of a witness in a proceeding before a court recorded by means of sound-recording apparatus or shorthand and the document bears a certificate that purports to have been given under section 11;
(b) a copy of a transcript referred to in paragraph (a) and the document bears a certificate that purports to have been given under section 13(1) or section 14;
(c) the record of the depositions of a witness in a proceeding before a court recorded in writing and signed in accordance with section 7; or
(d) a copy of the record referred to in paragraph (c) and the document bears a certificate that purports to have been given under section 13(1) or section 14,
the document is evidence that the witness made the depositions.
(2) Where a document that purports to be a transcript, a copy of a transcript, the record or a copy of the record referred to in subsection (1) is produced out of the custody of the clerk of the court before which the relevant proceeding was conducted and the document is certified by writing under the hand of the clerk to be a true transcript, copy of a transcript, record or copy of the record, as the case requires, the document is evidence that the relevant witness made the relevant depositions.
(3) Where a record made by means of sound-recording apparatus or shorthand that purports to be the record of the depositions of a witness in a proceeding before a court is produced out of the custody of the clerk of the court, the record is evidence that the witness made the depositions.
(4) Where -
(a) a record made by means of sound-recording apparatus that purports to be the record of the depositions of a witness in a proceeding before a court is produced out of the custody of the clerk of the court; and
(b) there is contained, on a track of the magnetic tape parallel to the track on which that record is contained, a record of comments that purport to have been made -
(i) at the same time as the first-mentioned record; and
(ii) for the purpose of identifying the proceeding or identifying a voice or other matter on the first-mentioned record,
the second-mentioned record is evidence of the identity of the proceeding, that voice or other matter, as the case requires.