Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE ACT 1994 - SECT 10

    (1)     A government agency shall establish procedures—

        (a)     to facilitate the making of public interest disclosures; and

        (b)     to deal with public interest disclosures that it is the proper authority to receive;

as soon as practicable, and in any event, within 12 months after—

        (c)     the commencement of this section; or

        (d)     the government agency comes into existence;

whichever is later.

    (2)     A government agency shall ensure that procedures established under subsection (1) are maintained.

    (3)     The procedures to be established under subsection (1) shall include procedures dealing with the following:

        (a)     making public interest disclosures;

        (b)     assisting and providing information to a person who makes a public interest disclosure;

        (c)     protecting a person who makes a public interest disclosure from unlawful reprisals, including unlawful reprisals taken by public officials in relation to the government agency;

        (d)     acting on public interest disclosures.

    (4)     The government agency shall, in respect of a document setting out the procedures established and maintained in accordance with this section—

        (a)     make a copy of the document available to its public officials; and

        (b)     make a copy of the document available to the public for inspection at all reasonable times; and

        (c)     supply to a person a copy of the document on payment of an amount directed by the government agency to be paid in relation to supply of the copy (being an amount that the government agency has determined, on reasonable grounds, to be equal to the costs that will be incurred by the government agency in providing the copy).