Section 17Part 0 —
Non-production of information
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Except as hereinafter mentioned, no information laid under this Law shall be admitted in evidence in any civil or criminal proceedings, and no witness shall be obliged or permitted to disclose the name or address of any informer under this Law, or state any matter which might lead to his discovery, and 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 shall cause all such passages to be concealed from view, or to be obliterated so far as may be necessary to protect the informer from discovery.
If, on the trial of any offence under this Law, a Judge, after full enquiry, believes that the informer wilfully made in his information a material statement which he knew or believed to be false, or did not believe to be true, or if, in any other proceeding, such Judge is of the opinion that justice requires the discovery of the informer, he may require the production of the original information, permit enquiry and require full disclosure concerning the informer.