INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION ACT 1988 - SECT 10 Complaints about possible corrupt conduct

INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION ACT 1988 - SECT 10

10 Complaints about possible corrupt conduct

(1) Any person may make a complaint to the Commission about a matter that concerns or may concern corrupt conduct.

Note 1 : Protections may be available under the following provisions to persons who make a complaint under this section--

(a) the Public Interest Disclosures Act 2022 , Part 3--if the complaint is a public interest disclosure,

(b) Part 8A--if the making of the complaint is protected action within the meaning of the Part.

Note 2 : The Public Interest Disclosures Act 2022 , section 58 confers additional investigative powers on the Commission in relation to certain public interest disclosures.

(2) The Commission may investigate a complaint or decide that a complaint need not be investigated.

(3) The Commission may discontinue an investigation of a complaint.

(4) If a prisoner informs the governor of the prison that the prisoner wishes to make a complaint under this section, the governor of the prison must--

(a) take all steps necessary to facilitate the making of the complaint, and

(b) send immediately to the Commission, unopened, any written matter addressed to the Commission.

(5) For the purposes of subsection (4),
"prisoner" and
"governor of a prison" have the same meanings as
"inmate" and
"governor" have in the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999 .