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EVIDENCE ACT 1929 - SECT 59H

EVIDENCE ACT 1929 - SECT 59H

59H—Transmission of request

Where an authorised South Australian court receives a request from a foreign court for the examination of a witness, or the production of documents, and it appears to the court that the witness or person by whom the evidence is to be given, or the documents produced, is not in South Australia and is not proceeding to South Australia, but is in, or proceeding to, some other country or State, the South Australian court

            (a)         may transmit the request to a foreign court in that other country or State together with such information as it possesses concerning the whereabouts of that person; and

            (b)         shall give notice to the foreign court from which it received the request of the fact that the request has been so transmitted.