10. Immunity of witnesses before the Committee

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails. Open the official Sinhala text, official PDF on documents.gov.lk

(1)

A person who gives evidence before the

Committee shall in respect of such evidence, be entitled to all the privileges to which a witness giving evidence before a court of law is entitled to in respect of such evidence given by him before such court.

Removal of Officers (Procedure)

(2)

No person shall in respect of any evidence written or oral, given by that person to, or before the Committee be liable to any action, prosecution or other proceeding civil or criminal in any court :

Provided that nothing in the preceding provisions of this subsection shall —

(a)

affect, or be deemed or construed to affect, any prosecution or penalty for any offence under Chapter

XI of the Penal Code ;

(b)

prohibit or be deemed or construed to prohibit or be deemed or construed to prohibit the publication or disclosure of the name or of the evidence or any part of the evidence of any witness who gives evidence before the Committee, for the purposes of the prosecution of that witness under Chapter XI of the

Penal Code.

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