5Information to be provided in agency annual returns—the Act, s 78(4)

5 Information to be provided in agency annual returns—the Act, s 78(4)

5 Information to be provided in agency annual returns—the Act, s 78(4)

(1) An agency is to include the following information in an annual return in relation to each voluntary public interest disclosure received or dealt with by the agency during the return period—

(a) how the agency received the disclosure, including the date on which the agency received the disclosure,

(b) whether the disclosure was a purported public interest disclosure,

(c) the nature of the serious wrongdoing the disclosure was about,

(d) if applicable—the relationship between the maker of the disclosure and the public official whose serious wrongdoing the disclosure was about,

(e) whether the serious wrongdoing involved 1 public official or more than 1 public official,

(f) action taken by the agency to deal with the disclosure, including the date on which the agency ceased to deal with the disclosure,

(g) if the agency investigated the serious wrongdoing—a description of the results of the investigation,

(h) if applicable—the corrective action taken, proposed to be taken or recommended to be taken by the agency.

(2) An agency is to include the following further information in an annual return in relation to purported public interest disclosures that were not in fact public interest disclosures—

(a) the number of the disclosures received by the agency during the return period,

(b) the number of the disclosures that were made by public officials,

(c) the reasons the agency did not deal with, or ceased dealing with, each of the disclosures as a public interest disclosure.

Note—

The Act defines purported public interest disclosure to mean a disclosure that is—

(a) made in compliance with the Act, section 27, and

(b) not a mandatory public interest disclosure or a witness public interest disclosure, and

(c) stated by the maker of the disclosure to be a public interest disclosure, whether or not it is in fact a public interest disclosure.