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Public Interest Disclosures Act 2022
85Offences relating to influencing or impeding other persons
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85 Offences relating to influencing or impeding other persons
85 Offences relating to influencing or impeding other persons
(1) A person must not provide or offer to provide beneficial treatment to another person for the purposes of influencing the other person to refrain from making a public interest disclosure or to withdraw a public interest disclosure.
(2) A person must not prevent or attempt to prevent a person, or a group or class of persons, from making public interest disclosures.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.