Victorian Current Acts

PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURES ACT 2012 - SECT 1

The purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to encourage and facilitate disclosures of—

              (i)     improper conduct by public officers, public bodies and other persons; and

              (ii)     detrimental action taken in reprisal for a person making a disclosure under this Act; and

        (b)     to provide protection for—

              (i)     persons who make those disclosures; and

              (ii)     persons who may suffer detrimental action in reprisal for those disclosures; and

S. 1(ba) inserted by No. 2/2019 s. 5.

        (ba)     to ensure that those disclosures are properly assessed and, where necessary, investigated;

        (c)     to provide for the confidentiality of the content of those disclosures and the identity of persons who make those disclosures.