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EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 20I

20I .         Protection of identity of informants

                If a journalist has promised an informant not to disclose the informant’s identity, neither the journalist nor a person for whom the journalist was working at the time of the promise is compellable to give evidence that would disclose the identity of the informant or enable that identity to be ascertained ( identifying evidence ).

        [Section 20I inserted: No. 31 of 2012 s. 5.]



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