Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsThe following is a simplified outline of this Division:
The principal officer of the allocated agency must investigate the disclosure, and prepare a report, within a set time and in accordance with the requirements of this Division.
However, a stop action direction under the NACC Act may prevent the investigation of some or all of the disclosure.
The principal officer may decide not to investigate in particular circumstances in which an investigation is unjustified, or if the agency is an investigative agency that can investigate without using this Act.
Note: The way a disclosure is investigated (or a refusal to investigate a disclosure) may be the subject of a complaint to the Ombudsman under the Ombudsman Act 1976 , or (in the case of an intelligence agency, or ACIC or the Australian Federal Police in relation to that agency's intelligence functions) to the IGIS under the Inspector - General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986 .