New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PROTECTED DISCLOSURES ACT 1994 - SECT 14

14 Disclosures to public officials

(1) To be protected by this Act, a disclosure by a public official to the principal officer of, or officer who constitutes, a public authority must be a disclosure of information that shows or tends to show corrupt conduct, maladministration or serious and substantial waste of public money by the authority or any of its officers or by another public authority or any of its officers.

(2) To be protected by this Act, a disclosure by a public official to:

(a) another officer of the public authority to which the public official belongs, or

(b) an officer of the public authority to which the disclosure relates,

in accordance with any procedure established by the authority concerned for the reporting of allegations of corrupt conduct, maladministration or serious and substantial waste of public money by that authority or any of its officers must be a disclosure of information that shows or tends to show such corrupt conduct, maladministration or serious and substantial waste (whether by that authority or any of its officers or by another public authority or any of its officers).

(3) In this section:
"public authority" includes an investigating authority.