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Inspector-General of Defence Act 2023

Inspector-General’s powers to obtain information and assistance - Protection of Defence Force workers

44: Protection against retaliation for co-operating with Inspector-General

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"Helping the Inspector-General keeps you safe from unfair treatment"

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You are protected if you help the Inspector-General. This means you tell them about something, or give them information or records, under sections like section 23, section 24, section 25, section 28, or section 29. The Defence Force cannot punish or treat you unfairly because you did these things. You are safe from being treated unfairly at work. The Defence Force must not punish you or treat you differently because you helped the Inspector-General. This applies to your current or future work with the Defence Force. But there is an exception. If the Inspector-General thinks you did not act honestly, you may not be protected. This means you might still face punishment or unfair treatment if you did not tell the truth.

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Part 4Inspector-General’s powers to obtain information and assistance
Protection of Defence Force workers

44Protection against retaliation for co-operating with Inspector-General

  1. This section applies to anyone who does any of the following things:

  2. brings a matter to the Inspector-General’s attention under section 23:
    1. helps to provide the Inspector-General with access to defence records under section 24 or information or assistance under section 25:
      1. submits to examination by the Inspector-General under section 28:
        1. provides the Inspector-General with information, a document, or another thing under section 29.

          1. The Defence Force must not, by reason of the person’s having done the thing, subject them to a penalty, or to discriminatory treatment of any kind, in relation to any work that they do, or propose to do, for the Defence Force.

          2. However, subsection (2) does not apply if the Inspector-General determines that the person did the thing in subsection (1) in bad faith.