New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURES ACT 1994 - SECT 9A

9A Presumptions about beliefs on which disclosures are based

(1) For the purposes of determining whether a disclosure by a public official is protected by this Act, an assertion by the public official as to what the public official believes in connection with the disclosure is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, evidence of the belief asserted and that the belief is an honest belief.

(2) Such an assertion need not be express and can be inferred from the nature or content of the disclosure.