Section 27: Power to investigate reports and enquire into information.

(1) Every report relating to the Commission of an offence under this Act may be made orally or in writing to an officer of the Commission, and if made orally shall be reduced into writing and read over to the person making the report; and every such report, shall be signed or thumb-printed by the person making it; and where the person making the report is an illiterate the officer obtaining the report shall endorse that fact on the report together with a statement to the effect that it was read over and interpreted to the maker.
(2) Every report, whether in writing or reduced into writing, shall be entered in a book kept at the office of the Commission and there shall be appended to such entry the date and hour at which such report was made.
(3) Where an Officer of the Commission has reasons to suspect the commission of an offence under this Act following a report made under sub-section (1) or information otherwise received by him, he shall cause investigation to be made and for such purpose may exercise all the powers of investigation provided for under this Act or any other law.
(4) A report made under subsection (1) of this section shall not be disclosed by any person to any person other than officers of the Commission or the Attorney- General until the accused person has been arrested or charged to court for an offence under this Act or any other written law arising from such report.
(5) Any document, certified by any officer of the Commission under sub-section (2) in respect of a report under Sub-section (1) shall be admissible as evidence of the contents of the original and of the time, place and manner in which the report was recorded.