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provides for the Bill to apply to all proceedings in a Victorian court. These include a proceeding relating to bail, a proceeding heard in chambers and an interlocutory proceeding of a similar kind. Whilst sentencing proceedings are also included, the clause specifies that the Bill applies in such proceedings only if the court directs the law of evidence to apply and then only in accordance with the direction. There are five Notes to clause 4 and they include the following— The first Note explains that section 4 of the Commonwealth Act is different, and it applies to federal court or ACT court proceedings. The second Note explains that Victorian court is defined in the Dictionary and that the Bill will apply not only to courts of law but also to persons and bodies that, in exercising a function under the law of the State, are required to apply the laws of evidence. The fourth Note makes it clear that the Bill preserves provisions in other Victorian Acts which relieve a court of the obligation to apply the rules of evidence. Clauses 5 and 6 contain no substantive provisions. Their inclusion ensures parity in section numbering with the Commonwealth and New South Wales Acts.