Western Australian Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE ACT 2003 - SECT 11

11 .         Limitation on notification of informant

        (1)         A proper authority must not, in a notification or report under section 10, give information that, in that proper authority’s opinion, would be likely to affect adversely — 

            (a)         any person’s safety;

            (b)         the investigation of an offence or possible offence; or

            (c)         necessary confidentiality about the existence or identity of a person who has made a disclosure of public interest information other than the person being given the information.

        [(2)         deleted]

        (3)         To avoid doubt, it is declared that information that section 151, 152 or 153 of the Corruption and Crime Commission Act 2003 prevents a person from disclosing is not to be given or disclosed under section 10.

        [Section 11 amended by No. 48 of 2003 s. 62 (as amended by No. 78 of 2003 s. 35(13)); No. 78 of 2003 s. 74(2).]