(a) enhancing and augmenting established procedures for making disclosures
concerning such matters, and
(b) protecting persons from reprisals that might
otherwise be inflicted on them because of those disclosures, and
(c)
providing for those disclosures to be properly investigated and dealt with.
(2) Nothing in this Act is intended to affect the proper administration and
management of an investigating authority or public authority (including action
that may or is required to be taken in respect of the salary, wages,
conditions of employment or discipline of a public official), subject to the
following--
(a) detrimental action is not to be taken against a person if to
do so would be in contravention of this Act, and
(b) beneficial treatment is
not to be given in favour of a person if the purpose (or one of the purposes)
for doing so is to influence the person to make, to refrain from making, or to
withdraw a disclosure.