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PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE AMENDMENT (REVIEW) ACT 2023 (NO. 23, 2023) - NOTES

 

No. 23, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

  

  


Contents

1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement................................................................................... 2

3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 3

Schedule 1--Main amendments                                                                                    4

Part 1--Personal work-related conduct                                                               4

Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013                                                                        4

Part 2--Allocation and investigation of disclosures                                     6

Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013                                                                        6

Part 3--Protection of disclosers and witnesses                                             24

Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013                                                                      24

Part 4--Reporting and sharing information                                                     36

Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013                                                                      36

Part 5--Roles of the Ombudsman and the IGIS                                          40

Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013                                                                      40

Part 6--Machinery of government changes                                                     42

Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013                                                                      42

Part 7--Agencies, public officials and principal officers                          46

Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013                                                                      46

Schedule 2--Other amendments                                                                                 50

Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013                                                                      50

Schedule 3--Application and saving provisions for Schedules 1 and 2 57

Schedule 4--Amendments contingent on the National Anti-Corruption Commission legislation            60

Part 1--Repeal of items from the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022 if this Act commences first                      60

National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022   60

Part 2--Amendments that commence if the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022 commences before this Act 61

Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013                                                                      61

Part 3--Amendments that commence after this Act and the National Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2022 commence                                                                                           62

National Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2022                                               62

Part 4--Amendments that commence after this Act and the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022 commence          66

Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013                                                                      66

 


Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

 

Public Interest Disclosure Amendment (Review) Act 2023

No. 23, 2023

 

 

 

An Act to amend the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013, and for related purposes

[Assented to 19 June 2023]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

 

[Minister's second reading speech made in--

House of Representatives on 30 November 2022

Senate on 6 March 2023]

(137/22)

 

 


 



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