Common Gaming Houses Act · 2019 Revised Edition
19. Protection of informers from discovery
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Except as mentioned in subsection (3) —
no information laid under this Act shall be admitted in evidence in any civil or criminal proceedings whatsoever; and
no witness shall be obliged or permitted to disclose the name or address of any informer under this Act or state any matter which might lead to his discovery,
If any books, documents or papers which are in evidence or liable to inspection in any civil or criminal proceedings whatsoever contain any entry in which any informer is named or described or which might lead
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gaming
“gaming” means playing any game of chance or of mixed chance and skill for money or money’s worth and includes — (a) playing any game specified in the Schedule; and (b) playing or operating any gaming machine;
to his discovery, the court or Magistrate shall cause all such passages to be concealed from the view or to be obliterated so far as may be necessary to protect the informer from discovery but no further.
However if —
on the trial of any offence under this Act, the Magistrate after full inquiry into the case believes that the informer wilfully made in his information a material statement which he knew or believed to be false or did not believe to be true; or
in any other proceedings the court or Magistrate is of opinion that justice cannot be fully done between the parties thereto without the discovery of the informer, it shall be lawful for the court or Magistrate to require the production of the original information and permit inquiry and require full disclosure concerning the informer.
Protection of police officers [S 20/2008]
Terms defined in s 2
gaming
Defined · s 2“gaming” means playing any game of chance or of mixed chance and skill for money or money’s worth and includes — (a) playing any game specified in the Schedule; and (b) playing or operating any gaming machine;