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PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE ACT 2013 - SECT 42

Simplified outline

    The 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 .


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