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PROTECTED DISCLOSURE ACT 2012 (NO. 85 OF 2012) - SECT 1 Purposes

PROTECTED DISCLOSURE ACT 2012 (NO. 85 OF 2012) - SECT 1

Purposes

The purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to encourage and facilitate disclosures of—

              (i)     improper conduct by public officers, public bodies and other persons; and

              (ii)     detrimental action taken in reprisal for a person making a disclosure under this Act; and

        (b)     to provide protection for—

              (i)     persons who make those disclosures; and

              (ii)     persons who may suffer detrimental action in reprisal for those disclosures; and

        (c)     to provide for the confidentiality of the content of those disclosures and the identity of persons who make those disclosures.