Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999

An examiner must ensure, if practicable, evidence given at an examination in Queensland is recorded under the Recording of Evidence Act 1962 or recorded in another way and authenticated by the examiner.

The examiner must authenticate and sign any deposition or other recording.

If evidence given at an examination is recorded in a deposition, it must—

contain, in question and answer form, the evidence of the person examined; and

be transcribed and read over by or to the witness in the examiner’s presence and in the presence of such of the parties as wish to attend; and

be signed by the witness, or, if the witness refuses to sign the deposition, by the examiner for the witness.