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Part V · General

25. Protection from Action

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(1)

(a)

No order, decision, act or omission of the

OMP 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.

(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 OMP 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 sub-section (1) of this section -

(a)

no proceedings civil or criminal, shall be instituted against any member of the OMP or any officer or servant appointed to assist the OMP, other than for contempt against the authority of the OMP, 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 OMP in respect of any report made in good faith by the OMP under this

Act or against any other person in respect of the publication by such person of a true account of such report;

(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 OMP.

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