Victorian Current Acts

PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURES ACT 2012 - SECT 33D

    (1)     If the Integrity and Oversight Committee has determined that a public interest disclosure relating to the Victorian Inspectorate or a Victorian Inspectorate Officer is a public interest complaint, the Committee must engage an independent person to investigate the public interest complaint under section 30 of the Parliamentary Committees Act 2003 .

    (2)     The Integrity and Oversight Committee must notify the engagement of an independent person to investigate a public interest complaint relating to the Victorian Inspectorate or a Victorian Inspectorate Officer to—

        (a)     the Minister; and

        (b)     the Inspector, unless the Committee reasonably believes that notifying the Inspector could prejudice the investigation.

    (3)     For the purposes of this section, a Victorian Inspectorate Officer does not include the Inspector.

    (4)     In this section—

"Inspector" has the same meaning as in section 3(1) of the Victorian Inspectorate Act 2011 .

S. 33E inserted by No. 2/2019 s. 14.