1Purposes

1 Purposes

The purposes of this Act are—

(a) to encourage and facilitate disclosures of—

(i) improper conduct by public officers, public bodies and other persons; and

(ii) detrimental action taken in reprisal for a person making a disclosure under this Act; and

(b) to provide protection for—

(i) persons who make those disclosures; and

(ii) persons who may suffer detrimental action in reprisal for those disclosures; and

S. 1(ba) inserted by No. 2/2019 s. 5.

(ba) to ensure that those disclosures are properly assessed and, where necessary, investigated;

(c) to provide for the confidentiality of the content of those disclosures and the identity of persons who make those disclosures.