Endangered Species (Import and Export) Act 2006 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Miscellaneous
22B. Protection of informers
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Except as provided in subsection (3), no witness in any civil or criminal proceedings is obliged or permitted —
to disclose the name, address or other particulars of an informer who has given information with respect to an offence under this Act, or the substance of the information received from the informer; or (b)to answer any question if the answer would lead, or would tend to lead, to the discovery of the name, address or other particulars of the informer.
If any document which is in evidence or liable to inspection in any civil or criminal proceedings, contains any entry in which the informer is named or described or which might lead to the discovery of the informer’s identity, the court must cause the entry to be concealed from view or to be obliterated so far only as may be necessary to protect the informer from discovery.
If, during any civil or criminal proceedings —
the court, after full inquiry into the case, believes that the informer wilfully made a material statement which the informer knew or believed to be false or did not believe to be true; or
the court is of the opinion that justice cannot be fully done in the proceedings without discovery of the identity of the informer, it is lawful for the court to require the production of the original information, in such form as the court may accept, and to permit inquiry and require full disclosure of the informer.
In this section, “informer” includes every person who is not called as a witness for the prosecution in a criminal case and who has made any complaint or report or given any information in respect of any offence under this Act alleged to have been committed by any person.
information
“information” includes data, text, images, sound, codes, computer programmes, software and databases;