52Obligation of Ministers and staff members

52 Obligation of Ministers and staff members

52 Obligation of Ministers and staff members

A Minister or member of a Minister’s staff to whom a disclosure mentioned in section 49(1)(a) or (b) is made must, as soon as reasonably practicable—

(a) communicate the disclosure to a disclosure officer for an agency that is responsible to the Minister, or

(b) communicate the disclosure to an integrity agency, or

(c) if the disclosure was made orally—direct the maker of the disclosure, for the purposes of remaking the disclosure, to a disclosure officer for an agency that is responsible to the Minister or to an integrity agency.

Note.

A disclosure is not a voluntary public interest disclosure if it is made orally to a Minister or a member of a Minister’s staff—see section 24(3)(c).