Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00482:reg:13:p33
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00482
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 13 (pt 33/48)
Character Range: 91766–94506

written submissions in response to an invitation under that subsection; and
 (b) invite the prosecutor and the other person to respond to the first person's submissions within the time specified in the invitation.

Part 6—Expert evidence requirements

6.01  Provision of guidelines to expert
  If a party to criminal proceedings:
 (a) retains an expert to give an expert report; or
 (b) proposes to call an expert to give expert evidence at the trial or a hearing of the proceedings;
the party must, when retaining the expert, give the expert a copy of any practice note dealing with guidelines for expert witnesses.
Note: A copy of any practice notes may be obtained from the District Registry or downloaded from the Court's website at http://www.fedcourt.gov.au.

6.02  Contents of expert report
 (1) If an expert prepares an expert's report, the report must:
 (a) comply with any practice note dealing with guidelines for expert witnesses; and
 (b) contain an acknowledgement at the beginning of the report that the expert has read, understood and complied with any practice note dealing with guidelines for expert witnesses; and
 (c) contain particulars of the training, study or experience by which the expert has acquired specialised knowledge; and
 (d) identify the questions that the expert was asked to address; and
 (e) set out separately each of the factual findings or assumptions on which the expert's opinion is based; and
 (f) set out separately from the factual findings or assumptions each of the expert's opinions; and
 (g) contain an acknowledgement that the expert's opinion is based wholly or substantially on the expert's specialised knowledge referred to in paragraph (c); and
 (h) set out the reasons for each of the expert's opinions; and
 (i) be signed by the expert.
 (2) Any subsequent expert report of the same expert on the same question need not contain the information in paragraphs (1)(b) and (c).

6.03  Adducing expert evidence
  A party may call an expert to give evidence at a trial or hearing of criminal proceedings only if the party:
 (a) has, at least 21 days before the day fixed for the start of the trial or the hearing, given all other parties a copy of an expert report by the expert that complies with rule 6.02; and
 (b) has otherwise complied with this Part.

Part 7—Service

Division 7.1—Personal service

7.01  Service on individual
 (1) A document in criminal proceedings that is required to be served personally on an individual may be served:
 (a) by leaving the document with the individual; or
 (b) in accordance with a provision of Division 7.3.
 (2) If an individual refuses to accept a document that is required to be served personally on the individual, the document is taken to