Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE ACT 1994 (NO 108 OF 1994)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      PART I—PRELIMINARY Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Interpretation  
   4.      Disclosable conduct  
   5.      Disclosures during proceedings  
   6.      Other protection preserved  
   7.      Liability of agent of the Crown  
   8.      Legal professional privilege  
   9.      Division 1—Government agency Proper authorities  
   10.     Procedures  
   11.     Report on disclosures  
   12.     Division 2—The Ombudsman Application of Ombudsman Act 1989  
   13.     Ombudsman a proper authority  
   14.     Intervention by Ombudsman  
   15.     PART III—PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURES Making a public interest disclosure  
   16.     Anonymous disclosures  
   17.     Frivolous etc. disclosures  
   18.     Referral without investigation  
   19.     Investigation by proper authority  
   20.     Referral with investigation  
   21.     No referral  
   22.     Action by proper authority  
   23.     Progress report  
   24.     Joint action  
   25.     Offence  
   26.     Function to assist complainant  
   27.     Relocation powers  
   28.     Consent to relocation  
   29.     Division 2—Civil claims Liability in damages  
   30.     Application for injunction or order  
   31.     Injunction or order to take action  
   32.     Undertakings as to damages and costs  
   33.     PART V—MISCELLANEOUS Confidentiality  
   34.     False or misleading information  
   35.     Limitation of liability  
   36.     Liability of person disclosing  
   37.     Corporations—penalties  
   38.     Regulations  
   39.     Amendment of Ombudsman Act 1989  
   40.     Amendment of Public Sector Management Act 1994