Section 99
Protection of informers
of Youth Societies and Youth Development Act 2007
Except as is hereinafter provided under subsection (2)
and (3), no witness in any civil or criminal proceedings shall be obliged or permitted to disclose the name or address of any informer or the contents of the information received from him or to state any matter which might lead to his discovery.
(2)
If any books, records, accounts, documents or computerized datas which are evidence or liable to inspection in any civil or criminal proceedings contain any entry in which any informer is named or described or which might lead to his discovery, the court shall cause all such passages to be concealed from view or to be obliterated so far as may be necessary to protect the informer from discovery.
(3)
Where in any trial for any offence under this Act, the court after full inquiry into the case believed that the informer has intentionally made in his complaint a material fact which he knows or believes is false or does not believe it is true, or where in any other proceedings the court is of opinion that justice could not be fully achieved between the parties in the proceedings without knowing the informer, the court may require the production of the original information, if in writing, and may permit inquiry and may require full disclosure to the Court concerning the informer.