Evidence Act (Northern Ireland) 1939

5Rules of court as to proof by affidavit.N.I.

(1)Rules of court [F1 and county court rules] may provide for orders being made at any stage of any civil proceedings directing that specific facts may be proved at the trial by affidavit with or without the attendance of the deponent for cross-examination, notwithstanding that a party desires the attendance of the deponent for cross-examination and that he can be produced for that purpose.

Subs.(2) rep. by 1959 c.25 (NI)