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FOREIGN EVIDENCE ACT 1994 - SECT 10

Orders for taking evidence abroad--inferior courts

  (1)   The Supreme Court of a State or Territory may, on the application of a party to a proceeding before an inferior court in that State or Territory, exercise the same power to make an order of the kind referred to in Division   1 for the purpose of that proceeding as the Supreme Court has under that Division   for the purpose of a proceeding in the Supreme Court.

  (2)   This section does not apply to a proceeding before a court of summary jurisdiction exercising jurisdiction under the Family Law Act 1975 .


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