9Application of common law and equity

9 Application of common law and equity (1) This Act does not affect the operation of a principle or rule of common law or equity in relation to evidence in a proceeding to which this Act applies, except so far as this Act provides otherwise expressly or by necessary intendment. Evidence (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011 5 (2) Without limiting subsection (1), this Act does not affect the operation of such a principle or rule so far as it relates to any of the (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 a court; (b) the operation of a legal or evidential presumption that is not inconsistent with this Act; (c) a court's power to dispense with the operation of a rule of evidence or procedure in an interlocutory proceeding. Note for section 9 This section differs from section 9 of the Commonwealth Act. That section preserves the written and unwritten laws of States and Territories in relation to various matters.