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EVIDENCE ACT 2001 - SECT 166 Definition of request

EVIDENCE ACT 2001 - SECT 166

PART 6 - Ancillary provisions Division 1 - Request to produce documents or call witnesses Definition of request

In this Division,
request means a request that a party (the requesting party) makes to another party to do one or more of the following:
(a) to produce to the requesting party the whole or a part of a specified document or thing;
(b) to permit the requesting party, adequately and in an appropriate way, to examine, test or copy the whole or a part of a specified document or thing;
(c) to call as a witness a specified person believed to be concerned in the production or maintenance of a specified document or thing;
(d) to call as a witness a specified person in whose possession or under whose control a specified document or thing is believed to be or to have been at any time;
(e) in relation to a document of the kind referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of the definition of  document , to permit the requesting party, adequately and in an appropriate way, to examine and test the document and the way in which it was produced and has been kept;
(f) in relation to evidence of a previous representation, to call as a witness the person who made the previous representation;
(g) in relation to evidence that a person has been convicted of an offence, being evidence to which section 92(2) applies, to call as a witness a person who gave evidence in the proceeding in which the person was so convicted.