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| (1) No proceedings, civil or criminal, shall be instituted against a member of the Commission or the Director-General or any officer or servant appointed to assist the Commission, or other than for contempt, against any other person assisting the Commission in any way, for any act which in good faith is done or omitted to be done, by him as such member, Director-General or officer or servant or other person. |
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| (2) A member of the Commission or the Director-General or an officer or servant appointed to assist the Commission shall not be required to produce in any court, any document received by, or to disclose to any court, any matter or thing, coming to the notice of, the Commission in the course of any investigation conducted by the Commission under this Act, except as may be necessary for the purposes of proceedings for contempt or for an offence under this Act or for an offence under Chapter XI of the Penal Code or the Bribery Act or the Declaration of Assets and Liabilities Law, No. 1 of 1975. |
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| (3) No proceedings, civil or criminal, shall be instituted in any court against any member of the Commission in respect of any report made by the Commission under this Act or against any other person in respect of the publication by such person of a substantially true account of such, report. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts