Queensland Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1977 - SECT 32

32 Power of Queensland court to transmit requests to other places

Where a court or person acting judicially in Queensland receives a request from a corresponding court for the examination of a witness or the production of documents by a person and it appears to the court or person acting judicially that the witness or person is not in Queensland and is not proceeding to Queensland but is in or proceeding to another country that is a prescribed country under the law of the country of the corresponding court the court—

(a) may transmit the request to a corresponding court in that other prescribed country together with such information as it or the person possesses concerning the whereabouts and intended movements of the person;

(b) shall give notice to the corresponding court from which it received the request that the documents have been so transmitted.