Environmental Quality Act 1974 · Updated to 7 Jul 2024 · Part VI · Miscellaneous
50A. Protection of informers
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), no witness in any civil or criminal proceedings pursuant to this Act shall be obliged or permitted to disclose the name or address of any informer or the substance and nature of the information received from him or state any matter which might lead to his discovery.
If any book, record, document or paper which is in evidence or is liable to inspection in any civil or criminal proceedings whatsoever contains any entry in which any informer is named or described or which might lead to his discovery, the court shall cause all such entries
document
“document” means any matter expressed, described, or represented in whatever manner, upon any substance, material, thing or article, including any matter embodied in a disc, tape, film, sound track or device, by means of— (a) any letter, figure, mark, symbol, signal, sign or any other form of expression, description or representation; (b) a visual recording (whether of any still or moving image); (c) a sound recording, or any electronic, magnetic, mechanical or other recording, or by any sound, electronic impulse or other data; or (d) a recording, or transmission, over a distance of any matter by any, or any combination, of the means mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c), or in this paragraph;
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to be concealed from view or to be obliterated in so far as may be necessary to protect the informer from discovery.
If in a trial for any offence under this Act the court, after full inquiry into the case, is of the opinion that the informer willfully 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 in the proceeding without the discovery of the informer, the court may require the production of the original complaint, if in writing, and permit an inquiry and require full disclosure concerning the informer.
Any person who gives the information referred to in this section knowing that the information is false shall be guilty of an offence.
Terms defined in s 2
document
Defined · s 2“document” means any matter expressed, described, or represented in whatever manner, upon any substance, material, thing or article, including any matter embodied in a disc, tape, film, sound track or device, by means of— (a) any letter, figure, mark, symbol, signal, sign or any other form of expression, description or representation; (b) a visual recording (whether of any still or moving image); (c) a sound recording, or any electronic, magnetic, mechanical or other recording, or by any sound, electronic impulse or other data; or (d) a recording, or transmission, over a distance of any matter by any, or any combination, of the means mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c), or in this paragraph;