Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Where an authority
desires to take or receive evidence in the State, the authority may by
instrument in writing appoint a person to so take or so receive evidence.
(2) Subject to
subsection (3), a person appointed pursuant to subsection (1) has power to
take or receive evidence in the State for the authority and for that purpose
has power to administer an oath.
(3) Where the
authority is not a court or judge a person so appointed is not empowered to
take or receive evidence or administer an oath in the State unless he has
first obtained the consent in writing of the Attorney General.
(4) This section does
not authorise the taking or receiving of evidence by a person so appointed in
or for use in criminal proceedings.
(5) In this section
authority means any court, judge, person or body that is authorised under the
law of a foreign country to take or receive evidence on oath in that country.
[Section 104A inserted: No. 23 of 1967 s. 2.]