Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE ACT 2013 - SECT 35

Main definition

  (1)   Conduct relates to an agency if the agency, or a public official belonging to the agency at the time of the conduct, engages in the conduct.

Conduct by unincorporated subsidiary agencies

  (2)   Despite subsection   (1), if:

  (a)   an agency (the subsidiary agency ) is established by or under a law of the Commonwealth for the purpose of assisting, or performing functions connected with, another agency (the parent agency ); and

  (b)   the subsidiary agency is an unincorporated body that is a board, council, committee, sub - committee or other body;

conduct that would, apart from this subsection, relate to the subsidiary agency is instead taken, for the purposes of this Act, to relate to the parent agency.

Note:   A machinery of government change (the abolition of an agency or a transfer of functions between agencies) may affect how disclosures are handled under this Act: see sections   73A to 73D.