Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1979 No. 140 FEDERAL COURT RULES - RULE 15.8

8. Where, at any stage of the proceeding, it appears to the Court from
evidence or from the nature or circumstances of the case or from any document
filed in the proceeding that there are grounds for a belief that some document
or class of document relating to any matter in question in the proceeding may
be or may have been in the possession, custody or power of a party, the Court
may order that party-

   (a)  to file any affidavit stating whether that document or any document of
        that class is or has been in his possession, custody or power and, if
        it has been but is not then in his possession, custody or power, when
        he parted with it and what has become of it; and

   (b)  to serve the affidavit on any other party.