Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Act 2024 · Updated to 2 Feb 2024 · Part X · Trials and Proceedings
45. Evidence of agent provocateur admissible
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Act or any other written law to the contrary, no agent provocateur shall be presumed to be unworthy of credit by reason only of him having attempted to abet or abetted the commission of an offence by any person under this Act if the attempt to abet or abetment was for the sole purpose of securing evidence against such person.
Notwithstanding any rule of law or this Act or any other written law to the contrary, and that the agent provocateur is an authorized officer, any statement, whether oral or in writing, made to an agent provocateur by any person who subsequently is charged with an offence under this Act shall be admissible as evidence at his trial.
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smoking
“smoking” means inhaling and expelling the smoke or vapour, of any tobacco product or substitute tobacco product, and includes the holding of or control over any tobacco product or substitute tobacco product which is ignited, heated or vaporized or used in any other methods;