Queensland Consolidated Acts

RECORDING OF EVIDENCE ACT 1962 - SECT 5

5.(1) In any legal proceeding in or before any court or judicial person, the court or judicial person may in its or the judicial person's discretion, with or without any application for the purpose, direct that any evidence to be given and any ruling, direction, address, summing up, and other matter in the legal proceeding (or of any part of the legal proceeding in question) be recorded--

(a) if a shorthand reporter is available--in shorthand; or

(b) if a mechanical device and a recorder are available--by the mechanical device; or

(c) if a shorthand reporter, mechanical device, and a recorder are available--in shorthand or by the mechanical device or partly in shorthand and partly by the mechanical device.

(2) The recording under this Act pursuant to any such direction shall be made by any 1 or more shorthand reporters who are available or, if the recording is made by mechanical means, under the supervision of or operation by a recorder or recorders who are available.