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Fisheries Act 1996

Performance of services by approved organisations - Information disclosure requirements

296ZG: Protection of auditors

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"Law protects auditors who honestly report information to the Minister"

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You are protected if you are an auditor and you tell the Minister something in good faith under section 296ZE. You cannot be sued or charged with a crime for telling the Minister something in good faith. The information you give to the Minister cannot be used as evidence against you. You cannot be removed from your job just because you told the Minister something in good faith under section 296ZE. A group that oversees auditors' professional conduct cannot take action against you for telling the Minister something in good faith. Information the Minister receives under section 296ZE cannot be used as evidence against you, but this does not stop other information from being used. If you give the Minister information in good faith under section 296ZE, you are protected, and other information you may have can still be used in a different way.

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Part 15APerformance of services by approved organisations
Information disclosure requirements

296ZGProtection of auditors

  1. No civil, criminal, or disciplinary proceedings lie against an auditor arising from the disclosure in good faith of information to the Minister under section 296ZE.

  2. No person may remove from office, or terminate the contract of appointment of, an auditor merely because of the disclosure in good faith of information to the Minister under section 296ZE.

  3. A tribunal, body, or authority having jurisdiction in respect of the professional conduct of an auditor must not make an order against, or do an act in relation to, that auditor in respect of the disclosure.

  4. Information received by the Minister under section 296ZE is not admissible in evidence in proceedings against the auditor concerned.

  5. Nothing in subsection (4) limits the admissibility of information obtained in any other way.

Notes
  • Section 296ZG: inserted, on , by section 65 of the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 101).