Tobacco and Vaporisers Control Act 1993 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3A · Control of Part 3A Products Containing Specified Psychoactive Substances, and Treatment and Rehabilitation
19Q. Protection of informers
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Except as provided in subsection (3), no witness in any civil or criminal proceedings commenced on or after the date of commencement of section 11 of the Tobacco (Control of Advertisements and Sale) (Amendment) and Other Matters Act 2026 is obliged or permitted —
to disclose the identity of an informer who has given any information (whether the information is given before, on or after that date) with respect to an offence under this Part; or
to answer any question if the answer to the question would lead, or would tend to lead, to the discovery of the identity 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 any informer is named or described or which may 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 —
in any proceedings for an offence under any written law, the court, after full enquiry 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
in any other proceedings, the court is of the opinion that justice cannot be fully done between the parties to the proceedings without the discovery of the informer,the court may permit enquiry and require full disclosure concerning the informer.