Court Procedures Rules 2006

At the request of a party to a proceeding, the registrar must, unless the court otherwise orders, issue a notice (a notice for non-party production) requiring a person who is not a party to the proceeding to produce for inspection a document—

relating to a matter in issue in the proceeding; and

in the person’s possession; and

that the person could be required to produce at the trial of the proceeding.

See approved form 2.27 (Notice for non-party production) AF2011-51.

See div 6.3.3 (Rejecting filed documents) for the registrar’s powers to reject documents.

The applicant may not require production of a document if there is available to the applicant another reasonably simple and inexpensive way of proving the matter sought to be proved by the document.

For this rule, a matter is in issue until it is—

admitted or taken to be admitted; or

withdrawn, struck out or otherwise disposed of.