Victorian Numbered Regulations Victorian Numbered Regulations(1) An addressee need not comply with the requirements of a subpoena to attend to give evidence unless conduct money has been handed or tendered to the addressee a reasonable time before the day on which attendance is required.
(2) An addressee need not comply with the requirements of a subpoena unless it is served on or before the day specified in the subpoena as the last day for service of the subpoena.
(3) Despite Rule 42.05(1), an addressee shall comply with the requirements of a subpoena even if it has not been served personally on that addressee if the addressee has, by the last day for service of the subpoena, actual knowledge of the subpoena and of its requirements.
(4) The addressee shall comply with a subpoena to produce—
(a) by attending at the date, time and place specified for production or, if the addressee has received notice of a later date or time from the issuing party, at that later date or time, and producing the subpoena or a copy of it and the document or thing to the Court or to the person authorised to take evidence in the proceeding as permitted by the Court; or
(b) by delivering or sending the subpoena or a copy of it and the document or thing to the Prothonotary at the address specified for the purpose in the subpoena, so that they are received not less than three days before the day specified in the subpoena for attendance and production or, if the addressee has received notice of a later day from the issuing party, before that later day.
(5) In the case of a subpoena that is both a subpoena to attend to give evidence and a subpoena to produce, production of the subpoena or a copy of it and of the document or thing in any of the ways permitted by paragraph (4) does not discharge the addressee from the obligation to attend to give evidence.
(6) Unless a subpoena specifically requires the production of the original, the addressee may produce a copy of any document required to be produced by the subpoena.
(7) The copy of a document may be—
(a) a photocopy; or
(b) in PDF format on a CD-Rom.