Prevention of Corruption Act · 2019 Revised Edition · Part · Evidence
30. Protection of informers
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Except as hereinafter provided, no complaint as to an offence under this Act or any prescribed offence shall be admitted in evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding whatsoever, and no witness shall be obliged or permitted to disclose the name or address of any informer, or state any matter which might lead to his discovery.
prescribed offence
“prescribed offence” means an offence punishable under section 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 213, 214 or 215 of the Penal Code or section 145 of the Customs Order, 2006 and includes — (a) an attempt to commit any such offence; (b) an abetment of or a criminal conspiracy to commit (as those terms are defined in the Penal Code) any such offence, whether or not the offence is committed in consequence thereof;
If any books, documents or papers which are in evidence or liable to inspection in any civil or criminal proceeding whatsoever contain any entry in which any informer is named or described or which might lead to his discovery, the court before which the proceeding is had shall cause all such passage to be concealed from view or to be obliterated so far as is necessary to protect the informer from discovery, but no further.
If in any proceedings relating to an offence under this Act or a prescribed offence, the court, after full inquiry into the case, is of the opinion that —
the informer wilfully made in his complaint a material statement which he knew or believed to be false or did not believe to be true; or
justice cannot be fully done between the parties thereto without the discovery of the informer, the court may require the production of the original complaint, if in writing, and permit inquiry and require full disclosure concerning the informer.
Terms defined in s 2
prescribed offence
Defined · s 2“prescribed offence” means an offence punishable under section 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 213, 214 or 215 of the Penal Code or section 145 of the Customs Order, 2006 and includes — (a) an attempt to commit any such offence; (b) an abetment of or a criminal conspiracy to commit (as those terms are defined in the Penal Code) any such offence, whether or not the offence is committed in consequence thereof;
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