Securities Commission Act 1993 · Updated to 1 Mar 2016 · Part VI · General
140. Protection of informers and information
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officer
“officer”, in relation to— (a) the Commission, means any officer employed under section 20 and includes an Investigating Officer of the Commission appointed under section 125; and (b) a corporation, has the meaning assigned to it in the Companies Act 1965;
Commission states that the complaint is made in consequence of information received by the officer making the complaint, the information referred to in the complaint and the identity of the person from whom such information is received shall be secret between the officer who made the complaint and the person who gave the information, and everything contained in such information, the identity of the person who gave the information and all other circumstances relating to the information, including the place where it was given, shall not be disclosed or be ordered or required to be disclosed in any civil, criminal or other proceedings before any court, tribunal or other authority.
Commission
“Commission” means the Securities Commission Malaysia established under section 3;
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If any book, paper or other document, or any visual or sound recording, or other matter or material which is given in evidence or liable to inspection in any civil, criminal or other proceedings before any court, tribunal or other authority contains any entry or other matter in which any person who gave the information is named or described or shown, or which might lead to his discovery, the court, tribunal or authority before which the proceedings are held shall cause all parts thereof or passages therein to be concealed from view or to be obliterated or otherwise removed so far as is necessary to protect such person from discovery.
Any person who gives the information referred to in subsection (1) knowing that the information is false shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or to both.
Subsections (1) and (2) shall not apply to any investigation into, or prosecution of, any offence under subsection (3).