Section Sch3-8 — Employment Relations Act 2000: Evidence at distance

8 Evidence at distance (1) For the purpose of obtaining the evidence of witnesses at a distance, the Court, or, while the Court is not sitting, any Judge, has all the powers and functions of a District Court Judge under the District Courts Act 1947 . (2) The provisions of the District Courts Act 1947 relating to the taking of evidence at a distance apply, with the necessary modifications, as if the Court were a District Court. (3) Despite subclause (2) evidence may, for the purposes of this Act, be taken at a distance by a Registrar of a District Court. Compare: 1991 No 22 s 126(2)(f)