[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 30, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 30CFR44.25]

[Page 192]
 
                       TITLE 30--MINERAL RESOURCES
 
  CHAPTER I--MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 44--RULES OF PRACTICE FOR PETITIONS FOR MODIFICATION OF MANDATORY SAFETY STANDARDS--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart C--Hearings
 
Sec. 44.25  Depositions.

    (a) Purpose. For reasons of unavailability or for purpose of 
discovery, the testimony of any witness may be taken by deposition.
    (b) Form. Depositions may be taken before any person having the 
power to administer oaths. Each witness testifying upon deposition shall 
be sworn, and the parties not calling him shall have the right to cross-
examine him. Questions propounded and answers thereto, together with all 
objections made, shall be reduced to writing, read to or by the witness, 
subscribed by him, and certified by the officer before whom the 
deposition is taken. The officer shall send copies by registered mail to 
the Chief Administrative Law Judge or the presiding administrative law 
judge.