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Clause 16

provides that judges or jurors are not competent to give evidence in the proceeding in which they are acting as judges or jurors. However, a juror in a proceeding is competent to give evidence in the proceeding about matters affecting the conduct of the proceeding. Further, a person who is or was a judge in an Australian or overseas proceeding is not compellable to give evidence about that proceeding unless the court gives leave.