(a) a person has made a public interest
disclosure under this chapter; and
(b) the entity to which the disclosure was
made or, if the disclosure was referred under section 31or 34, the entity to
which the disclosure was referred—
(i) decided not to investigate or deal
with the disclosure; or
(ii) investigated the disclosure but did not
recommend the taking of any action in relation to the disclosure; or
(iii)
did not notify the person, within 6 months after the date the disclosure was
made, whether or not the disclosure was to be investigated or dealt with.
(2)
The person may make a disclosure of substantially the same information that
was the subject of the public interest disclosure mentioned in subsection (1)
(a) to a journalist.
(3) To remove any doubt, it is declared that—
(a) the
disclosure of information to a journalist under this section is a public
interest disclosure; and
(b) a journalist to whom information is disclosed
under this section is not a relevant person for the purposes of section 64;
and
(c) a journalist to whom information is disclosed under this section does
not, for the purposes of section 65, gain the information because of the
journalist’s involvement in this Act’s administration.
(4) In this
section—
"journalist" means a person engaged in the occupation of writing or editing
material intended for publication in the print or electronic news media.