Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) In this Act—
"arrest warrant "means a warrant referred to in section 37;
"breach of discipline", in relation to a police officer, has the meaning given by section 125 of the Victoria Police Act 2013 ;
"breach of discipline charge" means a charge under section 46 ;
"business day "means a day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday within the meaning of the Public Holidays Act 1993 ;
"Chief Commissioner "means the Chief Commissioner of Police appointed under section 17 of the Victoria Police Act 2013 ;
"claimant" includes a relevant person;
"DPP" means the Director of Public Prosecutions appointed under section 87AB of the Constitution Act 1975 ;
"former police office"r includes a person who was but is no longer—
(a) a police officer; or
(b) a member of police personnel (within the meaning of the Police Regulation Act 1958 as it was known before that Act was renamed by the Victoria Police Act 2013 );
"human source" means a person who—
(a) is known to a law enforcement agency and has an expectation that their identity will be kept confidential; and
(b) supplies, or intends to supply, information about crime or persons involved in criminal activity to the law enforcement agency; and
(c) may be registered as a human source, informer or informant with the law enforcement agency;
"Implementation Monitor" has the same meaning as in the Police Informants Royal Commission Implementation Monitor Act 2021 ;
"IBAC" has the same meaning as in the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Act 2011 ;
"IBAC Officer "has the same meaning as in the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Act 2011 ;
"IBAC record "means any answer, information document or other thing acquired by the IBAC by reason of, or in the course of, the performance of its duties and functions or the exercise of its powers under the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Act 2011 ;
"investigating OSI officer" means an OSI officer appointed as an investigating OSI officer under section 27;
"Kellam inquiry" means the inquiry conducted in 2014 by the Honourable Murray Kellam AO QC on behalf of the IBAC into the conduct of current and former Victoria Police officers in relation to the management of Nicola Maree Gobbo as a human source, the findings of which were detailed in a confidential report dated 6 February 2015;
"member of Victoria Police personnel "has the same meaning as in the Victoria Police Act 2013 ;
"Office of the Special Investigator" means Office of the Special Investigator established under section 6;
"OSI officer" means any of the following—
(a) the Special Investigator;
(b) a member of staff of the Office of the Special Investigator;
(c) a consultant engaged under section 23;
"person "includes an unincorporated body or association and a partnership;
"privilege "means—
(a) any privilege that a person is entitled to claim in any proceeding before a court or tribunal; or
(b) public interest immunity;
"protected document or other thing" means an IBAC record that is a protected document or other thing (within the meaning of section 46 of the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Act 2011 ) given to the Office of the Special Investigator in accordance with section 73;
"public interest complaint" has the same meaning as in the Public Interest Disclosures Act 2012 ;
"public interest disclosure" has the same meaning as in the Public Interest Disclosures Act 2012 ;
"relevant offence "means an offence arising from, or out of, the conduct of persons involved in the use of Nicola Maree Gobbo as a human source and includes the following—
(a) an offence arising from, or out of, the conduct of Nicola Maree Gobbo herself;
(b) an offence arising from, or out of, the conduct of police officers and former police officers named in the complete and unredacted submissions of Counsel Assisting the Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants and the Royal Commission's final report;
(c) an offence arising from conduct involving the concealment or non‑disclosure of the use of Nicola Maree Gobbo as a human source;
"relevant person" means a person who receives a notification under section 81 and includes the following—
(a) the IBAC;
(b) Victoria Police;
(c) the Australian Federal Police within the meaning of the Australian Federal Police Act 1979 of the Commonwealth;
(d) the Australian Crime Commission—
(i) established under section 7 of the Australian Crime Commission Act 2002 of the Commonwealth; and
(ii) commonly known as the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission;
(e) any other law enforcement agency;
"relevant record" means—
(a) a Royal Commission record or part of that record; or
(b) an IBAC record or part of that record;
Royal Commission record has the meaning given by section 4 ;
"Royal Commission's final report "means the Report of the Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants delivered to the Governor on 30 November 2020;
"Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants" means the inquiry conducted by the Commissioner appointed under section 5 of the Inquiries Act 2014 by the Letters Patent dated 13 December 2018 and the amendments to the Letters Patent dated 7 February 2019, copies of which were published in the Government Gazette on those dates;
"search warrant" means a warrant referred to in section 31 ;
"secrecy provision "means a provision of an Act that restricts or prohibits the disclosure of information (whether that restriction or prohibition is absolute or subject to qualifications or exceptions);
"Special Investigator" means the person appointed under section 12 ;
"Victoria Police" has the same meaning as it has in section 3(1) of the Victoria Police Act 2013 .
(2) In this Act, a reference to Nicola Maree Gobbo is a reference to the individual named Nicola Maree Gobbo identified as the party EF in the proceeding known as AB (a pseudonym) v CD (a pseudonym); EF (a pseudonym) v CD (a pseudonym) [2018] HCA 58.