Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE ACT 2010 - SECT 32

32 Person who made disclosure, or referring entity, to be informed

(1) A public sector entity to which a public interest disclosure is made under section 15 , or referred under section 31 or 34 , must give the person who made the disclosure, or the entity that referred the disclosure, reasonable information about the disclosure.

(2) For subsection (1) , reasonable information about the disclosure includes at least the following—

(a) confirmation that the disclosure was received by the public sector entity;

(b) a description of the action proposed to be taken, or taken, by the public sector entity in relation to the disclosure;

(c) if action has been taken by the public sector entity in relation to the disclosure—a description of the results of the action.

(3) The information must be given to the person or the entity in writing.

(4) The public sector entity need not give information under subsection (1) if giving the information would be likely to adversely affect—

(a) anybody’s safety; or

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

(c) necessary confidentiality about an informant’s existence or identity.

(5) If a person makes a public interest disclosure to the Crime and Corruption Commission in a complaint of corruption, this section does not impose on the commission any duty that the commission does not already have under the Crime and Corruption Act 2001 .

(6) In this section—

"corruption" see the Crime and Corruption Act 2001 , schedule 2 .