National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022 (89 of 2022)

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 2   Consequential amendments

Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013

173   After subsection 44(2)

Insert:

(2A) If the authorised officer does not allocate the disclosure because of a stop action direction under the NACC Act, the authorised officer must:

(a) inform the Ombudsman of the following (unless paragraph (b) applies):

(i) the information that was disclosed;

(ii) the suspected disclosable conduct (if any);

(iii) if the discloser's name and contact details are known to the authorised officer, and the discloser consents to the Ombudsman being informed - the discloser's name and contact details;

(iv) the stop action direction under the NACC Act that prevents allocation of the disclosure; or

(b) inform the IGIS of those matters if the disclosure concerns conduct relating to:

(i) an intelligence agency; or

(ii) the IGIS; or

(iii) the intelligence functions of either ACIC or the Australian Federal Police.