South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts7—Identity of informant to be kept confidential
(1) A person to whom
another makes an appropriate disclosure of public interest information must
not, without the consent of that person, divulge the identity of that other
person except so far as may be necessary to ensure that the matters to which
the information relates are properly investigated.
(2) The obligation to
maintain confidentiality imposed by this section applies despite any other
statutory provision, or a common law rule, to the contrary.