The object of Public Interest Disclosure Act 2012 is to promote public interest by:
- providing a way for people to make public interest disclosures;
- ensuring people who make public interest disclosures are protected and treated respectfully;
- ensuring public interest disclosures are properly investigated and managed; and
- ensuring that appropriate consideration is given to the interests of people who make public interest disclosures and the people who are the subject of the disclosures.
As required by the Act, the Director-General declared Designated Disclosure Officers in the Directorate – the Director, Corporate Management and the Director, Investment Branch. The role of the Designated Disclosure Officer is to receive and make an initial assessment of a disclosure, and to act as a central coordination point for all matters relating to the disclosure, as well as communicate the progress and decisions on the disclosure to the discloser.
As required by the Commissioner for Public Administration's Public Interest Disclosure Guidelines 2013, the Directorate developed procedures for dealing with disclosures.
One disclosure was made during the year. It was not progressed under the PID Act as preliminary assessment found that it did not meet the requirements of the Act.