PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE ACT 1994 (NO. 108 OF 1994)

PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE ACT 1994 (NO. 108 OF 1994)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I--PRELIMINARY SHORT TITLE

   1.      This Act may be cited as the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1994.  
   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  

   PART II--PROPER AUTHORITIES

   9.      Each government agency is a proper authority to receive—  
   10.     Procedures  
   11.     Report on disclosures  
   12.     For the purposes of this Act, the Ombudsman may exercise any of the powers referred to in the Ombudsman Act 1989 as if a reference to an investigation under the Ombudsman Act 1989 were a reference to an investigation under this Act.  
   13.     Ombudsman a proper authority  
   14.     Intervention by Ombudsman  

   PART III--PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURES MAKING A PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE

   15.     (1) Any person may make a public interest disclosure to a proper authority.  
   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  

   PART IV--UNLAWFUL REPRISALS

   25.     Offence  
   26.     Function to assist complainant  
   27.     Relocation powers  
   28.     Consent to relocation  
   29.     (1) A person who engages in an unlawful reprisal is liable in damages to any person who suffers detriment as a result.  
   30.     Application for injunction or order  
   31.     Injunction or order to take action  
   32.     Undertakings as to damages and costs  

   PART V--MISCELLANEOUS CONFIDENTIALITY

   33.     (1) A public official shall not, without reasonable excuse, make a record of, or wilfully disclose to another person, confidential information gained through the public official's involvement in the administration of this Act.  
   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