Queensland Consolidated Acts

WHISTLEBLOWERS PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SCHEDULE 5

(1) The chief executive officer of an appropriate entity that is a public sector entity includes, if the entity is listed in schedule 1 of the Act, a person specified in the schedule as chief executive officer of the entity.

(2) A regulation may specify a person who is to be treated as a chief executive officer of a particular public sector entity for all or particular public interest disclosures.

(3) The object of a specification under schedule 1 of the Act or a regulation is--

(a) to make it easier to identify who is to be treated as the chief executive officer, particularly of entities for which this might otherwise be difficult to decide; or

(b) to provide for a person other than a chief executive officer to be also treated as a chief executive officer because the function given to chief executive officers under this Act may also be appropriately given to the person.

(4) A regulation under subsection (2) may not specify a chief executive officer for a public sector entity specified in schedule 1 of the Act, other than a part of a department.

(1) A public sector entity is any of the following--

(a) a committee of the Legislative Assembly;

(b) the Parliamentary Service;

(c) a court or tribunal;

(d) the administrative office of a court or tribunal;

(e) the Executive Council;

(f) a department;

(g) a local government;

(h) a university, university college, TAFE institute, statutory TAFE institute or agricultural college;

(i) a commission, authority, office, corporation or instrumentality established under an Act or under State or local government authorisation for a public, State or local government purpose;

(j) a GOC, but only to the extent indicated under part 4, division 5 of the Act;

(k) an entity, prescribed by regulation, that is assisted by public funds;

(l) a corporatised corporation, but only to the extent indicated under part 4, division 6 of the Act.

(2) However, the following are not public sector entities--

(a) a GOC, other than to the extent indicated under part 4, division 5 of the Act;

(aa) a corporatised corporation, other than to the extent indicated under part 4, division 6 of the Act;

(b) the following entities within the meaning of the Education (General Provisions) Act 2006--

(i) a parents and citizens association;

(ii) a non-State school;

(iii) an advisory committee;

(iv) an international educational institution;

(c) an entity prescribed by regulation.

(3) For this Act--

(a) a State educational institution or school council is part of the department in which the Education (General Provisions) Act 2006 is administered; and

(b) a member of a school council is a public officer of that department.