The Principles and Practice of the Law of Evidence

be entitled to; and that no person shall be compelled to produce under any such order as aforesaid any writing or other document that he would not be compellable to produce at a trial of such a cause.

V. Certain courts and judges to have authority under this act.]-Her Majesty's superior courts of common law at Westminster and in Dublin respectively, the court of session in Scotland, and any supreme court in any of her Majesty's colonies or possessions abroad, and any judge of any such court, and every judge in any such colony or possession who, by any order of her Majesty in council, may be appointed for this purpose, shall respectively be courts and judges having authority under this act.

VI. Power to judges to frame rules, &c., for giving effect to provisions of this act.]-It shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, with the assistance of two of the judges of the courts of common law at Westminster, so far as relates to England, and for the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, with the assistance of two of the judges of the courts of common law at Dublin, so far as relates to Ireland, and for two of the judges at the court of session, so far as relates to Scotland, and for the chief or only judge of the supreme court in any of her Majesty's colonies or possessions, abroad, so far as relates to such colony or possession, to frame such rules and orders as shall be necessary or proper for giving effect to the provisions of this act, and regulating the procedure under the same.

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