Section 30 — Prevention of Corruption Act

(1)

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.

(2)

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.

(3)

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 —

(a)

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

(b)

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.