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in such cases on the merits only, without reference to matters of and without inquiring into the manner or form of making any excepting in so far as the manner and form of seizure may be nce on such merits.
information
(1) Except as hereinafter mentioned, no information laid Rule as to this Ordinance shall be admitted in evidence in any civil or and informers. mal proceeding, and no witness shall be obliged to disclose the or address of any informer or to state any matter which might to his discovery, and if any books, documents, or papers which are dence or liable to inspection in any civil or criminal proceeding in any entry in which any such informer is named or described or hich might lead to his discovery, the Court or Magistrate shall cause uch passages to be concealed from view or to be obliterated so far may be necessary to protect the informer from discovery, but not
(2) But if, in any proceedings before a Magistrate for any offence mst any provision of this Ordinance, the Magistrate, after full ry into the case, believes that the informer wilfully made in his mation a material statement which he knew or believed to be false did not believe to be true, or if in any other proceeding the Court or gistrate is of opinion that justice cannot be fully done between the en thereto without the discovery of the informer, it shall be lawful the Court or Magistrate to require the production of the original ormation, and to permit inquiry and require full disclosure con-ing the informer.
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Miscellaneous Provisions.
48. If any person charged with any offence under this Ordinance Giving false A false name, or, with intent to procure his discharge or acquittal, name, etc.
duces or offers in evidence, or causes to be produced or offered in ence, any certificate required by this Ordinance which is proved, to tisfaction of the Magistrate, to have been issued to any other on or to be forged, he shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a not exceeding one hundred dollars, in addition to any other shment or penalty to which he may by law be liable.
Every person who-
Attempt, etc.
attempts to commit any offence in contravention of this Or- to commit.
Imance or
aids or abets
abets any other person in
any such offence or in the
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empt to commit any such offence,
on summary conviction, be liable to the same punishment and
as if he had been guilty of the actual offence.
offence.
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