--(1) With the consent of the parties, the court may order that the evidence of a witness be taken as if before an examiner, but without an examiner actually being appointed or present.
--(2) Where such an order is made then, subject to any directions that may be contained in the order-
----(a) the party whose witness is to be examined must provide a shorthand writer or stenographer to take down the evidence of the witness;
----(b) an attorney-at-law of any party may administer the oath to a witness;
----(c) the shorthand writer or stenographer need not himself be sworn but must certify in writing as correct a transcript of his notes of the evidence and deliver it to the attorney-at-law for the party whose witness was examined;
----(d) the attorney-at-law whose witness was examined must file the original transcript and deliver a true copy to all other parties and to the witness who was examined; and
----(e) if the witness or any attorney-at-law present at the hearing is of the opinion that the transcript does not accurately represent the evidence given he may endorse on the copy transcript the corrections which in his opinion should be made and file the copy transcript and serve a copy of it on all other parties.
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