Protection where information given under section 39
40.  Where a person or his officer, employee or agent, gives information under subsection (1) of section 39 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 43, 44, 46 and 47, not to have been in possession of that information at any time.
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