269New section 12A inserted

269 New section 12A inserted

After section 12 of the Integrity Oversight Victoria Act 2011 insert—

"12A Cultural safety guidelines and procedures

(1) Integrity Oversight Victoria, after consultation with the First Peoples' Assembly, must establish written guidelines and procedures to promote and safeguard cultural safety in the exercise of its powers and performance of its functions under this Act or any other Act in respect of a review, complaint or investigation of a matter relating to Gellung Warl, any public officer of Gellung Warl and any Gellung Warl staff member.

(2) Integrity Oversight Victoria may request the Treaty Authority to provide advice for the purposes of establishing the guidelines and procedures.

(3) Guidelines and procedures established under this section are not binding on Integrity Oversight Victoria and a failure to comply with them does not, of itself—

(b) affect the validity of any act or decision, or otherwise make unlawful any exercise of power or performance of functions, of Integrity Oversight Victoria under this Act or any other Act, or provide grounds for review of any act or decision.

(4) Nothing in this section affects or takes away from Integrity Oversight Victoria's independence.".