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Ordinance.

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Excitad at

Town of

Court to order diar clature of docaments. Inspection or

property, pc. 1970, 31. * 11

Antendnzent.

(5) to produce to the applicant such of those documents as are in his possession, custody or power.

19%. (1) On the application, in accordance with rules, of a party to any proccedings in which a claim in respect of personal injuries to a per- son or in respect of a person's death is made, the Court shall, in such circumstances as may be specified in the miles, have power to order a person who is not a party to the proceedings and who appears to the Court to be likely to have or to have bad in his possession, custody or power any documents which are relevant to an issue arising out of that claim-

(c) to disclose whether those

documents are in his posses Gjon, custody or power; and (b) to produce to the applicant such of those documents ad are in his possession, custody or power.

(2) On the application, in accord- ance with rules, of a party to any such proceedings as are referred to in subsection (1), the Court shall, în such circumstances as may be specifi- ed in the rules, hava power to make an order providing for any one or more of the following matters-

(a) the inspection, photograph- ing. preservation, custody and detention of property which is not the property of, or in the possession of, any party to the proceedings but which is the subject matter of the proceedings or as to which any question arises in the proceeding:

(b) the taking of samples of any such property as is mention- ed in paragraph (a) and the carrying out of any experi- ment on or with say such property.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) are without prejudice to the exercise by

frem.

Ordinance.

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coecdoc 190 and 196. 1970, c. 31,

L 13.

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Amendment,

the Court of any power to make orders which is exercisable apart from those provisions.

(4) In this section-

"property" includes any land, chattel or other corporeal property of any description.

19F. (1) The power to make supplementary civil procedure rules under section 48 shall include power to make rules as to the circumstances in which an order under section 19D or 198 can be made; and any such rules may include such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as the authority making the rules may com- sider necessary or expedient.

Application

to CILWH of sections 190 to 19F. 1970, 31, € 35.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), civil pro- cedure rules shall or may be made under section 48 for the purpose of ensuring that the costs of and incid- ental to proceedings for an order under section 19D or 19E incurred by the person against whom the order is sought shall be awarded to that person unless the Court otherwise directs.

(3) In sections 19D, 19E and 190- "personal injuries" includes any disease and any impairment of a person's physical or mental condition.

190. (1) Section 190 shall bind The Crown so far as it relates to property (within the meaning of that section) as to which it appears to the court that it may become the subject malter of subsequent proceedings in- volving a claim ja respect of personal injuries to a person or in respect of a person's den.

(2) Sections 19D, 195 and 197 shall bind the Crown.

(3) A Court shall not make an order under section 190, 190 or 198 If it considers that compliance with the order, if made, would be likely to be injurious to the public interest,”,