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EVIDENCE ACT 1995 - SECT 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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