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WHISTLEBLOWERS PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 14

14 What type of information can be disclosed?

(1) The types of information that may be disclosed by a public interest disclosure, and who may make the disclosure, are specified in sections 15 to 20.

(2) A person has information about conduct or danger specified in sections 15 to 20 if the person honestly believes on reasonable grounds that the person has information that tends to show the conduct or danger.

(3) If information is about an event, it may be about something that has or may have happened, is or may be happening, or will or may happen.

(4) If the information is about someone else's conduct, the information may be about conduct in which the other person has or may have engaged, is or may be engaging, or is or may be intending to engage.

(5) The information need not be in a form that would make it admissible evidence in a court proceeding.

Example--
The information may take the form of hearsay.


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