New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PROTECTED DISCLOSURES ACT 1994 - SECT 16

16 Disclosures made on frivolous or other grounds

(1) An investigating authority, or principal officer of or officer constituting a public authority, may decline to investigate or may discontinue the investigation of any matter raised by a disclosure made to the authority or officer of a kind referred to in this Part if the investigating authority or officer is of the opinion that the disclosure was made frivolously or vexatiously.

(2) A disclosure is not (despite any other provision of this Part) protected by this Act if an investigating authority or officer declines to investigate or discontinues the investigation of a matter under this section.

(3) Nothing in this section limits any discretion an investigating authority has to decline to investigate or to discontinue the investigation of a matter under the relevant investigation Act.