Section 14

Except as hereinafter provided, no complaint as to an offence under this Act 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 .

Protection of informers

If any book, document or paper which is in evidence or liable to inspection in any civilor criminal proceeding what-soever 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 held shall cause all such pass-ages to be concealed from view or to be obliterated so far as is necessary to protect the informer from discovery, but no fur-ther.

If on a trial for any offence under this Act the court, after full inquiry into the case, is of 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 if in any other proceeding the court is of opinion that justice cannot be fully done between the parties thereto without the discovery of the informer, the court may require the pro-duction of the original complaint, if in writing, and permit inquiry and require full disclosure concerning the informer.