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Public Interest Disclosure Amendment (Review) Bill 2022
a Bill for an Act to amend the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013, and for related purposes
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1 Short title
2 Commencement
Schedule 1—Main amendments
Schedule 2—Other amendments
Schedule 3—Application and saving provisions for Schedules 1 and 2
Schedule 4—Amendments contingent on the National Anti-Corruption Commission legislation
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The Parliament of the
Presented and read a first time
No. , 2022
(Attorney-General)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 , and for related purposes
1............ Short title............................................................................................ 1
2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1
3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 3
Schedule 1—Main amendments 4
Part 1—Personal work-related conduct 4
Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 4
Part 2—Allocation and investigation of disclosures 6
Part 3—Protection of disclosers and witnesses 24
Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 24
Part 4—Reporting and sharing information 36
Part 5—Roles of the Ombudsman and the IGIS 40
Part 6—Machinery of government changes 42
Part 7—Agencies, public officials and principal officers 46
Schedule 2—Other amendments 50
Schedule 3—Application and saving provisions for Schedules 1 and 2 57
Schedule 4—Amendments contingent on the National Anti-Corruption Commission legislation 60
Part 1—Repeal of items from the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022 if this Act commences first 60
National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022 60
Part 2—Amendments that commence if the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022 commences before this Act 61
Part 3—Amendments that commence after this Act and the National Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2022 commence 62
National Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2022 62
Part 4—Amendments that commence after this Act and the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022 commence 66
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act is the Public Interest Disclosure Amendment (Review) Act 2022 .
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table
The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.
2. Schedules 1 to 3
A single day to be fixed by Proclamation.
However, if the provisions do not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the day after the end of that period.
3. Schedule 4, Part 1
Immediately before the commencement of Schedule 1 to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022 .
However, the provisions do not commence at all if that Schedule commences before the commencement of the provisions covered by table item 2.
Immediately after the commencement of the provisions covered by table item 2.
However, the provisions do not commence at all if Schedule 1 to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022 does not commence before that time.
The later of:
(a) immediately after the commencement of the provisions covered by table item 2; and
(b) immediately after the commencement of section 40 of the National Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2022 .
However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur.
(b) immediately after the commencement of Schedule 1 to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022 .
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.