Public Interest Disclosure Act 2012

If the investigating entity for a public interest disclosure is not the integrity commissioner, the entity must tell the commissioner about the following:

the progress and outcome of an investigation of the disclosure;

the referral of the disclosure under section 21 (Referral to chief police officer);

any action taken, or proposed to be taken, in relation to disclosable conduct the subject of the disclosure;

a decision to end the investigation of the disclosure and—

the ground mentioned in section 20 for the decision; and

the reasons for making the decision on that ground; and

if the ground mentioned in section 20 (2) (d) (iii) was a reason for the decision—how the disclosure was otherwise dealt with and the result (if any) of dealing with the disclosure in that way.

An investigating entity must comply with this section as soon as possible after an investigation etc is completed (see Legislation Act, s 151B).

If the public interest disclosure has been referred to the chief police officer, the investigating entity is only required to comply with subsection (1) (a), (c) and (d) to the extent that relevant information has been given to the entity by the chief police officer.