Public Interest Disclosure Rules 2025

I, Mark Dreyfus KC, Attorney‑General, make the following rules.

Dated 24 March 2025  

Mark Dreyfus KC

Attorney‑General

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

5 Definitions

Part 2—Officials and agencies

6 Agency to which certain statutory officeholders belong

7 Prescribed authority—Inspector‑General of the Australian Defence Force

Schedule 1—Repeals

Public Interest Disclosure Rules 2019

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name

  This instrument is the Public Interest Disclosure Rules 2025.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5  Definitions

  In this instrument:

Act means the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013.

Part 2—Officials and agencies

6  Agency to which certain statutory officeholders belong

  For the purposes of paragraph (c) of column 2 of item 14 of the table in subsection 69(1) of the Act, the agency to which a statutory officeholder belongs under that paragraph is the Department administered by the Minister responsible for administering the provision of the law by or under which the office is established.

7  Prescribed authority—Inspector‑General of the Australian Defence Force

  For the purposes of subparagraph 72(1)(f)(ii) of the Act, the office of the Inspector‑General of the Australian Defence Force referred to in section 110B of the Defence Act 1903 is prescribed.

Schedule 1—Repeals

Public Interest Disclosure Rules 2019

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.