INFORMERS REWARDS

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Informers Reward Ordinance.

2. It shall be lawful for the court before which an offender is convicted of an offence under any of the enactments enumerated in the Schedule to direct in respect of any fine that may be imposed for such offence that any share not exceeding one-half thereof or of so much as shall actually be recovered be awarded to the informer :

Provided that in the case of offences under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Ordinance, such direction shall not be inconsistent with any order made by the Minister under section 11 of the said Ordinance ;

Provided further that the Minister may, by Order for that purpose published in the Gazette, direct that the provisions of this section shall, for a period to be specified in such Order, cease to be operative within the jurisdiction of any particular court in respect of all or any of the offences under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Ordinance

3. All awards which are made under the last preceding section to a Headman appointed in writing by the Government Agent or the Assistant Government Agent shall be paid into a general fund for the reward of such Headman to be regulated in manner as the Minister shall from time to time direct.

4. The Minister of Justice by Order for that purpose published in the Gazette, may extend the provisions of section 2 hereof to any enactment now in force or hereafter to be enacted.