Public Sector Management (Breaches of Public Sector Standards) Regulations 2005

The conciliation and review officer, having regard to the guidelines, is to carry out a review of a claim by —

giving the claimant and the employing authority of the relevant public sector body the opportunity to make any submissions, in writing or otherwise, in support of or in response to the claim;

interviewing any person who the officer considers may have information relevant to the claim; and

considering the information and documents provided by the claimant or the employing authority under regulation 12 and, subject to subregulation (2), any other information or document obtained by the officer that the officer considers relevant to the claim.

In carrying out the review, the conciliation and review officer is not to have regard to anything said by, or any document provided by, the claimant or the employing authority —

that was said or provided for the purposes of attempting to settle the claim by agreement under Division 2; and

that the conciliation and review officer considers was said or provided confidentially for those purposes.