Evidence on Commission Act 2001

The Supreme Court, on the application of a party to a civil or criminal proceeding before an inferior court, may exercise the same power to make an order of a kind referred to in section 7(2) for the purpose of that proceeding as the Supreme Court has under that subsection for the purpose of a proceeding in the Supreme Court.

Subsections (6), (7) and (8) of section 7 apply in relation to evidence taken in an examination held as a result of an order made by the Supreme Court under this section in relation to an inferior court as if – in those subsections – a reference to the proceeding were a reference to the proceeding in the inferior court; and a reference to the Supreme Court were a reference to the inferior court; and a reference to an order made under subsection (2) of section 7 were a reference to an order made by the Supreme Court under this section.

The power vested in the Supreme Court under subsection (1) may be exercised in chambers.