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Effect of Act on other laws

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Chapter 1Preliminary
Part 1.2Application of this Act

9 Effect of Act on other laws

(1)

For the avoidance of doubt, this Act does not affect an Australian law so far as the law relates to a court’s power to dispense with the operation of a rule of evidence or procedure in an interlocutory proceeding.

(2)

For the avoidance of doubt, this Act does not affect a law of a State or Territory so far as the law relates to:

(a)

admission or use of evidence of reasons for a decision of a member of a jury, or of the deliberations of a member of a jury in relation to such a decision, in a proceeding by way of appeal from a judgment, decree, order or sentence of the relevant court; or

(b)

bail; or

(c)

any requirement for admission of evidence in support of an alibi.

(3)

For the avoidance of doubt, this Act does not affect a law of a State or Territory so far as the law provides for:

(a)

the operation of a legal or evidential presumption (except so far as this Act is, expressly or by necessary intendment, inconsistent with the presumption); or

(b)

the admissibility of a document to depend on whether stamp duty has been paid; or

(c)

a requirement that notice must be given before evidence may be adduced; or

(d)

evidentiary effect to be given to a certificate or other document issued under that or any other law of the State or Territory; or

(e)

proof of title to property (other than by a means provided for by this Act that is applicable to proof of title to property).

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