Section 166 — Evidence Act 1995 (NSW)

In this Division—
request means a request that a party (“the requesting party”) makes to another party to do one or more of the following—
(a) to produce to the requesting party the whole or a part of a specified document or thing,
(b) to permit the requesting party, adequately and in an appropriate way, to examine, test or copy the whole or a part of a specified document or thing,
(c) to call as a witness a specified person believed to be concerned in the production or maintenance of a specified document or thing,
(d) to call as a witness a specified person in whose possession or under whose control a specified document or thing is believed to be or to have been at any time,
(e) in relation to a document of the kind referred to in paragraph (b) or (c) of the definition of document in the Dictionary—to permit the requesting party, adequately and in an appropriate way, to examine and test the document and the way in which it was produced and has been kept,
(f) in relation to evidence of a previous representation—to call as a witness the person who made the previous representation,
(g) in relation to evidence that a person has been convicted of an offence, being evidence to which section 92 (2) applies—to call as a witness a person who gave evidence in the proceeding in which the person was so convicted.

Related sections

• s 165 — Unreliable evidence
• s 165A — Warnings in relation to children’s evidence
• s 165B — Delay in prosecution
• s 167 — Requests may be made about certain matters
• s 168 — Time limits for making certain requests
• s 169 — Failure or refusal to comply with requests

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