The main objects of this Act are—
(a) to promote the public interest by facilitating public interest disclosures of wrongdoing in the public sector; and
(b) to ensure that public interest disclosures are properly assessed and, when appropriate, properly investigated and dealt with; and
(c) to ensure that appropriate consideration is given to the interests of persons who are the subject of a public interest disclosure; and
(d) to afford protection from reprisals to persons making public interest disclosures.