Malaysia legislation

Section 70

of Sustainable Resources and Wastes Management, 2025

Section 70

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 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 to be concealed from view or to be obliterated in so far as may be necessary to protect the informer from discovery.

(3)

If on the trial for any offence under this Ordinance 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 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 complaint, if in writing, and permit enquiry, and require full disclosure concerning the informer.

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