Malaysia legislation

Section 38

of Natural Resources And Environment Ordinance, 1949

Section 38

Protection of informers

(2)

If any book, record, account, document or computerized data which is in evidence or liable to inspection in any civil or criminal proceeding contains any entry in which informer is named or described or which might lead to his identification, the court shall cause all such passages to be concealed from view or to be obliterated so far only as may necessary to protect the informer from being identified.

(3)

If on the trial for any offence under this Ordinance the court after full enquiry into the case believes 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 proceeding the court is of opinion that justice cannot be fully done between the parties thereto without the identification of the informer, it shall be lawful for the court to require the production of the original complainant, if in writing, and permit enquiry, and require full disclosure concerning the informer.

Reward, etc.