Officers of certain departments bound to report offences and to assist
22. Every officer of the Police, Customs Department and the Department of Inland Revenue and every Grama Seva Niladhari shall be bound to give immediate information to an excise officer appointed under this Act of all breaches of any of the provisions of this Act which may come to his knowledge, and to aid such excise officer in carrying out the provisions of this Act upon request made by such officer: Provided that, nothing in this section shall be read or construed as requiring any such officer or Grama Seva Niladhari to give any information to an excise officer, which such officer or Grama Seva Niladhari is prohibited from giving under the provisions of any other law. |