principal Ordinance to provide that no information for an
offence under the Ordinance shall be admitted in any proceedings
and no witness in any proceedings i tall disclose the identity of
an informer or answer any question that would lead, or tend to
lead, to the discovery of an informer's identity.
this protection can be removed if the court -
However,
(a) in any proceedings for an offence under the
Ordinance is satisfied that the informeT
wilfully made a false statement; or
(b) in any other proceedings, is of opinion that
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justice cannot be fully done without the disclosure
of the identity of an informer.
Section 14 extends the time limit for bringing
prosecutions for summary offences under the principal Ordinance.
However, where a person has committed a summary offence under
the Ordinance and is immane from prosecution under section 26 of
the Magistrates Ordinance, because he was not prosecuted within
6 months of the commission of the offence, he shall not be liable
to be prosecuted for that offence by virtue of the new time limit
being introduced.
13. Section 33 of the principal Ordinance provides that a
person convicted of an offence under Part II shall be disqualified
for a period of 7 years from being a member of a public body
specified in the schedule. The majority of the bodies listed in
the Schedule are corporations and, in that context, membership
means ovning shares. Since this was not the intention when the
Ordinance vas enacted, section 15 amends section 33 by removing
the disqualification in respect of memberskip of public bodies
listed in the schedule. However
However, the disqualification will continue
to apply in respect of membership of the Executive, Legislative
and Urban Councils and other public bodies.