Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CIVIL LAW (WRONGS) ACT 2002 - SECT 71

    (1)     In this section:

"relevant section" means any of the following sections:

              •     section 68 (Respondent to give documents etc to claimant)

              •     section 69 (Respondent to give documents etc to contributor)

              •     section 70 (Contributor to give documents to respondent).

    (2)     This section applies to the extent that a relevant section requires a person (the disclosing person ) to give copies of reports or other documents or information ( relevant material ) to someone else and the total number of pages of the copies exceeds 200 pages.

    (3)     Within the time the disclosing person would, apart from this section, be required to give relevant material to someone else under the relevant section, the disclosing person need only offer the other person a reasonable opportunity to inspect the material.

    (4)     If the other person, whether on inspection or otherwise, by written notice given to the disclosing person, requires the disclosing person to give the other person copies of some or all of the relevant material, the disclosing person must comply with the requirement within—

        (a)     if the total number of pages does not exceed 200—1 month after the day the requirement is made; or

        (b)     in any other case—1 month after the day the other person pays 50 cents for each page by which the total number of pages exceeds 200 pages.

Note     If, under a provision of an Act or statutory instrument, an act is required to be done, the obligation to do the act continues until it is done (see Legislation Act

, s 152).