Australian Capital Territory Current Regulations

COURT PROCEDURES RULES 2006 - REG 600

In this part:

"discoverable document "means a document that is discoverable under rule 605 (Discoverable documents).

"document"—see the title="A2011-12">Evidence Act

, dictionary, part 1 and part 2, section 8.

Note     Document is defined in the href="http://www.legislation.act.gov.au/a/2001-14" title="A2001-14">Legislation Act

, dict, pt 1 as any record of information, and includes—

        (a)     anything on which there is writing; or

        (b)     anything on which there are figures, marks, numbers, perforations, symbols or anything else having a meaning for people qualified to interpret them; or

        (c)     anything from which images, sounds, messages or writings can be produced or reproduced, whether with or without the aid of anything else; or

        (d)     a drawing, map, photograph or plan.

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, dict, pt 2, s 8 extends the meaning of document as follows:

‘A reference in this Act to a document includes a reference to the following:

        (a)     any part of the document;

        (b)     any copy, reproduction or duplicate of the document or of any part of the document;

        (c)     any part of the copy, reproduction or duplicate.'.

"government" means—

        (a)     the Commonwealth, a State or Territory; or

        (b)     a Minister, department or agency of the Commonwealth, a State or Territory; or

        (c)     the government of a foreign country.

"list of documents" means a list of documents under rule 608 (List of discoverable and privileged documents etc).

"privileged from production"—see rule 601.

"respondent", in relation to a notice for non-party production, means the person to whom the notice is directed.