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Evidence Act 2006

Evidence from overseas or to be used overseas - Proceedings in Australia and New Zealand - Audio links and audiovisual links in New Zealand proceedings

171: Evidence, examination, and submissions by audio link

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"Giving evidence by phone or video from Australia to a New Zealand court"

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If you are giving evidence or making submissions by audio link from Australia, the courtroom in New Zealand and the place in Australia must have special facilities. These facilities must allow you to hear the people in the New Zealand courtroom and them to hear you in Australia. You can find more information about this by looking at the Trans-Tasman Proceedings Act 2010. The facilities must work both ways, so you can hear each other. This is part of the Evidence Act 2006, which you can read more about on the New Zealand legislation website.

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Part 4Evidence from overseas or to be used overseas
Proceedings in Australia and New Zealand: Audio links and audiovisual links in New Zealand proceedings

171Evidence, examination, and submissions by audio link

  1. Evidence must not be given, or examination or submissions made, by audio link from Australia unless the courtroom or other place where the New Zealand court is sitting in New Zealand and the place where the evidence is to be given, or the examination is to be made, or the submissions are to be made, in Australia are equipped with facilities that—

  2. enable persons present at the place where the court is sitting in New Zealand to hear the person giving evidence or making the examination or submissions in Australia; and
    1. enable persons present at the place where the evidence is given, the examination is made, or the submissions are made, in Australia to hear persons at the place where the court is sitting in New Zealand.

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      • Section 171 heading: amended, on , by section 10(1) of the Trans-Tasman Proceedings Act 2010 (2010 No 108).
      • Section 171: amended, on , by section 10(1) of the Trans-Tasman Proceedings Act 2010 (2010 No 108).
      • Section 171(a): amended, on , by section 10(1) of the Trans-Tasman Proceedings Act 2010 (2010 No 108).
      • Section 171(b): amended, on , by section 10(1) of the Trans-Tasman Proceedings Act 2010 (2010 No 108).