Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Corruption and
Crime Commission and the Parliamentary Commissioner are not required to comply
with sections 8(1), 9 and 10 if the disclosure relates to a matter
that it is a function of the Corruption and Crime Commission or the
Parliamentary Commissioner to investigate, inquire into, deal with, or take
any other step with respect to, under another written law, whether on the
complaint of a person or on its or his or her own motion.
(2) If a person makes
a disclosure of public interest information under this Act to the
Parliamentary Commissioner, the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1971
section 26 applies as if the disclosure were the making of a complaint
under that Act.
(3) If a disclosure of
public interest information is made —
(a) to a
declared person; and
(b) the
information relates to a matter which it is a function of the person to
investigate, inquire into, deal with, or take any other step with respect to,
under another written law, whether on the complaint of a person or on that
person’s own motion,
sections 8(1) and
9 do not apply to that declared person in relation to that disclosure.
(4) If a declared
person has a duty under a written law other than this Act to make a progress
report to a person who has made a complaint to it —
(a)
section 10 does not apply to the declared person; and
(b) a
progress report is to be made to any person who disclosed public interest
information to that declared person under this Act as if the disclosure were
the making of a complaint under that written law.
(5) In this
section —
complaint includes an allegation, application,
charge, motion, objection, petition, report, request or summons;
declared person means a person declared in
regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (g) of the definition of
“public authority” to be a public authority.
[Section 12 amended by No. 48 of 2003
s. 62; No. 78 of 2003 s. 74(2); No. 8 of 2009 s. 104(2).]