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CRIME AND CORRUPTION ACT 2001 - SECT 36

Complaining about corruption

36 Complaining about corruption

(1) A person may make a complaint about corruption to the commission for the purpose of the commission dealing with the complaint under section 35 .
(2) Subsection (1) does not limit to whom a person can complain about corruption.
Examples—
1 A person may complain directly to the commissioner of police about corruption.
2 A person may complain directly to the chief executive of a government department about corruption happening within the department.
(3) A person may also give information or matter involving corruption to the commission.
Examples of information or matter involving corruption that may be given to the commission—
• information given to the commission through a commission activity, including, for example—
• evidence given by a witness at a commission hearing
• information obtained through telephone interception or a covert operation
• evidence gathered through a corruption investigation
• a routine departmental audit report
• an intelligence report from a law enforcement agency
• a Crime Stoppers report
• information about a significant police event such as a death in police custody or police shooting
• information or matter referred to the commission by a coroner, a court, a commission of inquiry or another investigative body or public inquiry



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