INTEGRITY (LOBBYISTS) ACT 2016 (NO. 15 OF 2016)

Table of Provisions

• Long Title
• Preamble

PART 1 -- Preliminary  

• 1 Short title  
• 2 Commencement  
• 3 Terms used  
• 4 Term used: lobbying activity  
• 5 Purpose  
• 6 Act binds Crown  
• 7 Application  

PART 2 -- Registration  

Division 1 -- Requirement to be registered  

• 8 Lobbying activity by unregistered persons prohibited  
• 9 Certain persons not required to register  

Division 2 -- Register  

• 10 Register  
• 11 Publication of information on register  

Division 3 -- Registration and listing  

• 12 Who may be registered  
• 13 Who may be listed as lobbyist  
• 14 Certain persons disqualified from registration or listing  
• 15 Commissioner makes decisions on registration and listing and related procedures  

PART 3 -- Code of conduct  

• 16 Code of conduct  
• 17 Registrants and lobbyists to comply with code of conduct  
• 18 Publication of code of conduct  
• 19 Application of Interpretation Act 1984 to code of conduct  

PART 4 -- Success fees  

• 20 Term used: success fee  
• 21 Agreements to receive success fees prohibited  
• 22 Recovery of success fee  

PART 5 -- Miscellaneous  

Division 1 -- Provision of information to Commissioner  

• 23 Duty of confidentiality overridden  
• 24 Offence to supply false or misleading information  

Division 2 -- General  

• 25 Regulations  

PART 6 -- Transitional  

• 26 Terms used  
• 27 Persons on existing Register of Lobbyists  
• 28 Existing contracts for success fee  
Defined terms  

[Assented to 11 July 2016]