Public Interest Disclosure Act 2003

The Commissioner is to monitor compliance with —

this Act; and

the code established under section 20.

The Commissioner is to assist public authorities and public officers to comply with this Act and the code established under section 20.

The Commissioner must establish a code setting out minimum standards of conduct and integrity to be complied with by a person to whom a disclosure of public interest information may be made under section 5(3).

In establishing, amending, or repealing and replacing the code, the Commissioner is to take into account the independence that any particular proper authority has under a written law.

The Commissioner may amend, or repeal and replace, the code.

The Commissioner must, before establishing, amending, or repealing and replacing the code, consult such persons as he or she considers it desirable and practicable to consult.

The code must be published in the Gazette.

The code comes into operation at the beginning of the day on which it is published in the Gazette or of such later day as is specified in the code.

Section 42 of the Interpretation Act 1984 applies to and in relation to the code as if the code were regulations within the meaning of that section.

Subsections (5) to (7) also apply to an amendment, or repeal and replacement, of the code.