Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE ACT 1994 - SECT 18

Subject to section 21, if a public interest disclosure received by a proper authority is not related to—

        (a)     the conduct of the authority or of a public official in relation to the authority; or

        (b)     a matter, or the conduct of any person, that it has a function or power to investigate;

the proper authority shall refer the disclosure to a government agency that, because it has a function or power to deal with the conduct or matter the disclosure concerns, is a proper authority to receive the disclosure.