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PROTECTED DISCLOSURE ACT 2012 (NO. 85 OF 2012) - SECT 91 Complaints and disclosures from detained persons

PROTECTED DISCLOSURE ACT 2012 (NO. 85 OF 2012) - SECT 91

Complaints and disclosures from detained persons

    (1)     For section 37(1) of the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Act 2011 substitute

    "(1)     This section applies if a detained person wishes to—

        (a)     provide information or make a complaint to the IBAC under this Act; or

        (b)     make a disclosure to the IBAC under Part 2 of the Protected Disclosure Act 2012 .

    (1A)     The detained person may inform the person in charge that he or she wishes to communicate with the IBAC.

    (1B)     The detained person is not required to inform the person in charge of the content or purpose of that communication.

    (1C)     On being informed by the detained person of his or her wish to communicate with the IBAC, the person in charge must—

        (a)     take all reasonable steps to facilitate that communication; and

        (b)     subject to subsection (3), immediately forward, unopened, to the IBAC any letter addressed to the IBAC by the detained person.".

    (2)     In section 37(3) of the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Act 2011 , for "(1)(b)" substitute "(1C)(b)".