Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Part 6 provides for certain offences and the criminal proceedings about the offences.
(2) The part makes it an offence--
(a) for a public officer to record or disclose certain confidential information gained through involvement in this Act's administration other than under certain circumstances including, for example, the investigation under an Act of information disclosed under a public interest disclosure; and
(b) for a person intentionally to give false or misleading information as a public interest disclosure or in subsequent inquiries into the person's disclosure.
(3) The part also declares that a public officer who commits one of these offences or the offence of reprisal is guilty of misconduct under any Act under which the officer may be dismissed or disciplined for misconduct.