Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Any public sector entity is an appropriate entity to receive a public interest disclosure--
(a) about its own conduct or the conduct of any of its officers; or
(b) made to it about anything it has a power to investigate or remedy; or
(c) made to it by anybody who is entitled to make the public interest disclosure and honestly believes it is an appropriate entity to receive the disclosure under paragraph (a) or (b); or
(d) referred to it by another public sector entity under section 28.
(1A) A member of the Legislative Assembly is an appropriate entity to receive any public interest disclosure.
(2) However, subsection (1)(c) or (1A) does not permit a public sector entity or member of the Legislative Assembly to receive a public interest disclosure if, apart from this section, the public sector entity or member would not be able to receive the disclosure because of division 4, 5 or 6.
(3) If a person makes a public interest disclosure to an appropriate entity, the person may also make a public interest disclosure to the entity about a reprisal taken against the person for making the disclosure.
Examples--
Schedule 3 has examples of the operation of subsection (1)(a) and (b).