Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE ACT 2010 - SECT 40

40 Reprisal and grounds for reprisal

(1) A person must not cause, or attempt or conspire to cause, detriment to another person because, or in the belief that—

(a) the other person or someone else has made, or intends to make, a public interest disclosure; or

(b) the other person or someone else is, has been, or intends to be, involved in a proceeding under the Act against any person.

(2) An attempt to cause detriment includes an attempt to induce a person to cause detriment.

(3) A contravention of subsection (1) is a reprisal or the taking of a reprisal.

(4) A ground mentioned in subsection (1) as the ground for a reprisal is the unlawful ground for the reprisal.

(5) For the contravention mentioned in subsection (3) to happen, it is sufficient if the unlawful ground is a substantial ground for the act or omission that is the reprisal, even if there is another ground for the act or omission.