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PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE ACT 2003 - SECT 14

14 .         Reprisal an offence

        (1)         A person must not take or threaten to take detrimental action against another because anyone has made, or intends to make, a disclosure of public interest information under this Act.

        Penalty: $24 000 or imprisonment for 2 years.

        (2)         A person who — 

            (a)         attempts to commit an offence created by subsection (1); or

            (b)         intending that an offence created by subsection (1) be committed, incites another person to commit that offence,

                commits an offence.

        Penalty: $24 000 or imprisonment for 2 years.



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