Queensland Consolidated Acts

[Index] [Table] [Search] [Search this Act] [Notes] [Noteup] [Previous] [Next] [Download] [Help]

WHISTLEBLOWERS PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 37B

37B Application of Act to corporatised corporations

(1) An officer of a corporatised corporation may, under section 15, 16 or 18, make a public interest disclosure to the corporatised corporation about its conduct or the conduct of another officer of the corporatised corporation.

(2) An officer of a corporatised corporation may, under section 15, make a public interest disclosure to the Crime and Misconduct Commission about the conduct of the corporatised corporation or the conduct of another officer of the corporatised corporation.

(3) An officer of a corporatised corporation may, under section 17, make a public interest disclosure to the corporatised corporation about its conduct, the conduct of another officer of the corporatised corporation or the conduct of a public sector contractor contracting with the corporatised corporation.

(4) An officer of a corporatised corporation may also make a public interest disclosure about a reprisal taken against the officer for making the public interest disclosure under subsection (1) or (3)--

(a) under section 26(3), to the corporatised corporation; or
(b) if the reprisal is official misconduct--to the Crime and Misconduct Commission.

(5) For public interest disclosures under subsections (1) to (4) and of applying any law about the disclosures--

(a) the corporatised corporation is a public sector entity; and
(b) the officer making the public interest disclosure is a public officer; and
(c) if the public interest disclosure is made under section 17 about the conduct of another officer of the corporatised corporation--the other officer is a public officer.

(6) Other than as provided by subsection (5)--

(a) a corporatised corporation is not a public sector entity under this Act; and
(b) an officer of a corporatised corporation is not a public officer under this Act; and
(c) an officer of a corporatised corporation can not, as a public officer, make a public interest disclosure.

(7) This section does not affect the making of a public interest disclosure by anybody under section 19 or 20.

(8) This section does not affect the reference under section 28--

(a) from a corporatised corporation to another public sector entity of a public interest disclosure made to the corporatised corporation under this section; or
(b) from a public sector entity to a corporatised corporation of a public interest disclosure made to the public sector entity.


[Index] [Table] [Search] [Search this Act] [Notes] [Noteup] [Previous] [Next] [Download] [Help]