Section 31

If any book or document which is in evidence or liable to inspection in any civil or criminal proceedings whatsoever, contain any entry or passage in which any informer is named or described or which might lead to his discovery, the court shall cause all such entries or passages to be concealed from view or to be obliterated insofar only as may be necessary to protect the informer from discovery.

If on the trial for any offence against this Act or any regulations made thereunder the court, after full enquiry into the case, believes 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 proceedings the court is of the opinion that justice cannot be fully done between the parties thereto without the discovery of the informer, it shall be lawful for the court to require the production of

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the original complaint, if in writing, and permit enquiry, and require full disclosure, concerning the informer.

Offence by bodies of persons, and by servants and agents