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Witness Protection Act, 1998 (Act No. 112 of 1998)

19. Protected person not obliged to disclose certain information

 

Notwithstanding any other law, no protected person

(a) when giving evidence or producing any book, record, document or object in his or her possession or under his or her control in any proceedings or in any civil proceedings before a court; or
(b) if he or she is in terms of any law compellable to answer questions or to give evidence or to produce any book, record, document or object in his or her possession or under his or her control in any proceedings, other than the proceedings referred to in the definition of "proceedings" in section 1, instituted or conducted in terms of any law, when answering the questions or giving the evidence or producing that book, record, document or object in such proceedings,

shall be obliged to disclose any information referred to in section 18 .