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AUS-2011-L-105372
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Title_of_text
Public Interest Disclosure Act 2010, No. 38.
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Australia
Territorial subdivision(s)
Queensland
Subjects (Classification)
General provisions; Public and civil servants
Adopted on (Date of text)
2010-09-20
Scope of text
State or Province
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
The main objects of this Act are—
(a) to promote the public interest by facilitating public interest disclosures of wrongdoing in the public sector; and
(b) to ensure that public interest disclosures are properly assessed and, when appropriate, properly investigated and dealt with; and
(c) to ensure that appropriate consideration is given to the interests of persons who are the subject of a public interest disclosure; and
(d) to afford protection from reprisals to persons making public interest disclosures.
Repeals the Whistleblowers Protection Act 1994, No. 68
Entry dates region
Date of entry into force
2011-01-01
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Electronic region
Electronic source title
Legislation on-line
Author
Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel, Queensland, Australia
URL
https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/pdf/inforce/current/act-2010-038
File
AUS105372.pdf (PDF of Act as current to 1 March 2017)