| Protection where information given pursuant to section 38 |
| 39. Where a person or his officer, employee or agent, gives information pursuant to subsection (1) of section 38 as soon as practicable after having the knowledge referred to in that subsection, the person or his officer, employee or agent shall be taken, for the purposes of sections 41, 41A, 43 and 43A, not to have been in possession of that information at any time. |