Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE ACT 2013 - SECT 44B

Scope

  (1)   This section applies if a stop action direction under the NACC Act prevents an authorised officer of an agency from allocating some or all of a disclosure under section   43.

Notice of details relating to disclosure

  (2)   The authorised officer must, as soon as reasonably practicable, give written notice of the matters in subsection   (3) to:

  (a)   the Ombudsman (unless paragraph   (b) of this subsection applies); or

  (b)   the IGIS, if the disclosure concerns conduct relating to:

  (i)   an intelligence agency; or

  (ii)   the IGIS; or

  (iii)   ACIC or the Australian Federal Police in relation to that agency's intelligence functions.

  (3)   The following are the matters for the purposes of subsection   (2):

  (a)   the information that was disclosed;

  (b)   the conduct disclosed;

  (c)   if the discloser's name and contact details are known to the authorised officer, and the discloser consents to the Ombudsman or the IGIS, as relevant, being informed--the discloser's name and contact details;

  (d)   the stop action direction under the NACC Act that prevents allocation of some or all of the disclosure.