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PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE ACT 2013 - SECT 73 Meaning of principal officer

PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE ACT 2013 - SECT 73

Meaning of principal officer

  (1)   For the purposes of this Act, the principal officer of an agency mentioned in column 1 of an item in the following table is the person specified in column 2 of the item.

 

Principal officers of agencies

Item

Column 1

Agency

Column 2

Principal officer

1

A Department.

The Secretary of the Department.

4

The Australian Federal Police.

The Commissioner of Police (within the meaning of the Australian Federal Police Act 1979 ).

5

The High Court or any court created by the Parliament.

The chief executive officer of the court.

6

The Office of Official Secretary to the Governor - General

The Official Secretary to the Governor - General.

7

The Ombudsman.

The Ombudsman.

8

The IGIS.

The IGIS.

9

A prescribed authority that is constituted by an individual.

The individual.

10

Any other agency.

Whichever of the following individuals is applicable:

(a) the chief executive officer, or the head, however described, of the agency;

(b) if another individual is ascertained in accordance with the PID rules--that other individual.

  (2)   For the purposes of this Act:

  (a)   the Chief Executive and Principal Registrar of the High Court is the chief executive officer of the High Court; and

  (b)   the Chief Executive Officer and Principal Registrar of the Federal Court is the chief executive officer of the Federal Court; and

  (c)   the Chief Executive Officer and Principal Registrar of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia is the chief executive officer of the following courts:

  (i)   the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division   1);

  (ii)   the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division   2); and

  (d)   the PID rules may provide that the chief executive officer of another specified court is the person holding, or performing the duties of, a specified office; and

  (e)   the Registrar of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal is the chief executive officer of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal; and

  (f)   the PID rules may provide that the chief executive officer of another specified Commonwealth tribunal is the person holding, or performing the duties of, a specified office.