Queensland Consolidated Acts

WHISTLEBLOWERS PROTECTION ACT 1994

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

           Contents

           Part 1--Preliminary

           Division 1--Title and commencement

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement

           Division 2--Object of Act

   3.      Principal object of Act

           Division 3--Definitions

   4.      Definitions and dictionary

           Division 4--Operation of Act

   5.      Act generally binding
   6.      Other protection saved

           Part 2--General explanation of Act

   7.      What is the general nature of the Act's scheme?
   8.      Public disclosures made by public officers (pt 3)
   9.      Public interest disclosures made by anybody
   10.     How must a public interest disclosure be made (pt 4)?
   11.     What is the special protection given for public interest disclosures (pt 5)?
   12.     General sections (pt 6)

           Part 3--Disclosures that may be made

   13.     Purpose of part
   14.     What type of information can be disclosed?
   15.     Public officer may disclose official misconduct
   16.     Public officer may disclose maladministration
   17.     Public officer may disclose negligent or improper management affecting public funds
   18.     Public officer may disclose danger to public health or safety or environment
   19.     Anybody may disclose danger to person with disability or to environment from particular contraventions
   20.     Anybody may disclose reprisal
   21.     Conduct of unknown person
   22.     Involuntary disclosures
   23.     Disclosure of events that happened before commencement

           Part 4--Disclosure process

           Division 1--Purpose of part

   24.     Purpose of part

           Division 2--Disclosure must be to appropriate entity

   25.     Disclosure must be made to an appropriate entity
   26.     When public sector entity or member of Legislative Assembly is an appropriate entity
   27.     How to disclose to appropriate entity
   28.     Disclosure received by public sector entity may be referred
   28A.    Disclosure received by member of Legislative Assembly may be referred
   28B.    Legislative Assembly may still deal with disclosure

           Division 3--Records and reports about disclosures

   29.     Records must be kept of disclosures
   30.     Units must report to Legislative Assembly on disclosures
   31.     Minister must report to Legislative Assembly on Act's administration
   32.     Reasonable information about result of disclosure must be given to discloser or referring entity

           Division 4--Limitation on disclosure process for courts, tribunals and judicial officers

   33.     Object of division
   34.     Disclosures made administratively to or about a judicial officer
   35.     Disclosures in court or tribunal proceedings

           Division 5--Limitation on disclosure process for GOCs

   36.     Object of division
   37.     Application of Act to GOCs

           Division 6--Limitation on disclosure process for corporatised corporations

   37A.    Object of division
   37B.    Application of Act to corporatised corporations

           Part 5--Privilege, protection and compensation

           Division 1--Purpose of part

   38.     Purpose of part

           Division 2--Limitation of action

   39.     General limitation
   40.     Liability of discloser unaffected

           Division 3--Reprisal unlawful

   41.     Reprisal and grounds for reprisal

           Division 4--Criminal prosecution about reprisal

   42.     Reprisal is an indictable offence

           Division 5--Civil claims about reprisal

   43.     Damages entitlement for reprisal

           Division 6--Administrative action about reprisal

   44.     Public sector entity must protect its officers against reprisals
   45.     Appeal against action affected by reprisal
   46.     Relocation of public service employees

           Division 7--Injunctions about reprisal

   47.     Right to apply for Industrial Commission injunction
   48.     Right to apply for Supreme Court injunction
   49.     Grounds for injunction
   50.     Order may require specified action
   51.     Evidence
   52.     Interim injunction
   53.     Confidentiality of applications
   54.     Undertakings as to damages and costs

           Part 6--General

   55.     Preservation of confidentiality
   56.     False or misleading information
   57.     Misconduct by breach of Act
   58.     Proceedings for offences generally
   59.     Proceedings for indictable offences
   60.     Change to a committal proceeding during summary proceeding
   61.     Regulation-making power
           SCHEDULE 1 CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
           SCHEDULE 2 OFFENCES ENDANGERING THE ENVIRONMENT
           SCHEDULE 3 EXAMPLES OF APPROPRIATE ENTITIES IN PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES
           SCHEDULE 5 SECTIONAL DEFINITIONS
           1. Meaning of chief executive officer
           2. Meaning of public sector entity
           SCHEDULE 6 DICTIONARY
           Endnotes