Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00864:section:77g
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00864
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 77G
Character Range: 112928–113718

77G  Orders and commissions for examination of witnesses
  The High Court may, in any cause pending in the Court and at any stage of the proceedings:
 (a) order the examination of a person upon oath orally or on interrogatories before the Court, an officer of the Court or another person at any place within Australia; or
 (b) order that a commission issue to a person, either within or beyond Australia, authorizing him or her to take the testimony upon oath of a person orally or on interrogatories;
and the Court may:
 (c) by the same or a subsequent order give any necessary directions concerning the time, place and manner of the examination; and
 (d) empower any party to the cause to give in evidence in the cause the testimony so taken on such terms (if any) as the Court directs.