New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PROTECTED DISCLOSURES ACT 1994 - SECT 12

12 Disclosure to Auditor-General concerning serious and substantial waste

(1) To be protected by this Act, a disclosure by a public official to the Auditor-General must:

(a) be made in accordance with the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 , and

(b) be a disclosure of information that shows or tends to show that an authority or officer of an authority has seriously and substantially wasted public money.

(2) In this section, "authority" and "officer of an authority" have the meanings given to those expressions in the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 .