Western Australian Numbered Acts Western Australian Numbered Acts (1) The
Anti-Corruption Commission and the Parliamentary Commissioner are not required
to comply with sections 8(1), 9 and 10 if the disclosure relates to
a matter that it is a function of the Anti-Corruption Commission or the
Parliamentary Commissioner to investigate, inquire into, deal with, or take
any other step with respect to, under another written law, whether on the
complaint of a person or on its or his or her own motion.
(2) If a person makes
a disclosure of public interest information under this Act —
(a) to
the Anti-Corruption Commission, section 25 of the
Anti-Corruption Commission Act 1988 applies as if the disclosure were the
making of an allegation under that Act; or
(b) to
the Parliamentary Commissioner, section 26 of the
Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1971 applies as if the disclosure were the
making of a complaint under that Act.
(3) If a disclosure of
public interest information is made —
(a) to a
declared person; and
(b) the
information relates to a matter which it is a function of the person to
investigate, inquire into, deal with, or take any other step with respect to,
under another written law, whether on the complaint of a person or on that
person’s own motion,
sections 8(1) and
9 do not apply to that declared person in relation to that disclosure.
(4) If a
declared person has a duty under a written law other than this Act to make a
progress report to a person who has made a complaint to it —
(a)
section 10 does not apply to the declared person; and
(b) a
progress report is to be made to any person who disclosed public interest
information to that declared person under this Act as if the disclosure were
the making of a complaint under that written law.
(5) In this
section —
"complaint" includes an allegation, application,
charge, motion, objection, petition, report, request or summons;
"declared person" means a person declared in
regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (g) of the definition of
“public authority” to be a public authority.