56—Exceptions or exemptions need not be specified or disproved by
informant
(1) No exception,
exemption, proviso, excuse, or qualification (whether it does or does not
accompany in the same section the description of the offence in the Special
Act or other document creating the offence) need be specified or negatived in
the information.
(2) Any such
exception, exemption, proviso, excuse, or qualification as aforesaid may be
proved by the defendant, but, whether it is or is not specified or negatived
in the information, no proof in relation to it shall be required on the part
of the informant.