Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsThe following is a simplified outline of this Division:
If a disclosure is made to an authorised officer of an agency (either directly by the discloser or through a supervisor of the discloser), he or she allocates the handling of the disclosure to one or more agencies.
A stop action direction under the NACC Act may prevent the allocation of some or all of a disclosure.
Note 1: In order for a disclosure to be an internal disclosure (one of the types of public interest disclosure), the disclosure must be made to an authorised officer or a supervisor.
Note 2: The way a disclosure is allocated (or a refusal to allocate 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 .