South Australian Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENT, RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT COURT ACT 1993 - SECT 46

46—Entitlement of witness to be assisted by an interpreter

        (1)         Where—

            (a)         the native language of a person who is to give oral evidence in any proceedings before the Court is not English; and

            (b)         the witness is not reasonably fluent in English,

the person is entitled to give that evidence through an interpreter.

        (2)         A person may present written evidence to the Court in a language other than English if that written evidence has annexed to it—

            (a)         a translation of the evidence into English; and

            (b)         an affidavit by the translator to the effect that the translation accurately reproduces in English the contents of the original evidence.