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Part V · General

19. Protection from action

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(1)

(a)

No order, decision, act or omission of the

Reconciliation Office or any member, officer or servant thereof shall be questioned in any proceedings or any court of law, save and except in proceedings under Article 126 or 140 of the Constitution.

Office for National Unity and Reconciliation

(b)

The writ jurisdiction conferred on the Court of Appeal by Article 140 of the Constitution in relation to any order, decision, act or omission of the Reconciliation Office or any member, officer or servant thereof, shall be exercised by the

Supreme Court and not by the Court of Appeal.

(2)

Other than in the circumstances provided for in subsection (1) of this section –

(a)

no proceedings civil or criminal, shall be instituted against any member of the Reconciliation Office or any officer or servant appointed to assist the

Reconciliation Office, other than for contempt against the authority of the Reconciliation Office, for any act which in good faith is done or omitted to be done, by him, as such member or officer or servant;

(b)

no proceedings civil or criminal, shall be instituted against any member of the Reconciliation Office in respect of any report made in good faith by the

Reconciliation Office under this Act or against any other person in respect of the publication by such person of a true account of such report; and

(c)

no proceedings civil, criminal or administrative, shall be instituted against any person consequent, to such person in good faith providing evidence or documentation to the Reconciliation Office.

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