Queensland Consolidated Regulations

JUSTICES REGULATION 2014 - REG 12

12 Copy of summons issued to witness under Act, s 78 or 83 to be filed

(1) This section applies if a person asks a justice to issue a summons that may be issued under section 78 or 83 of the Act .

(2) If the summons is issued at a place appointed for holding a Magistrates Court, the person must, at the time the summons is issued—

(a) file a copy of the summons with the clerk of the court at the place; and

(b) pay the fee for filing the copy.

(3) If the summons is issued at another place, the person must, within 3 days after the summons’s issue—

(a) file a copy of the summons with the clerk of the court who is at or nearest to the returnable place; and

(b) pay the fee for filing the copy.

(4) In this section—

"returnable place" , for a summons, means the place where the relevant witness is required to appear or produce documents under the summons.