PID Act: Are you complying with your disclosure obligations as a supervisor?

It's been over 12 months since the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 (Cth) (PID Act) commenced, and agencies should be quite familiar with its requirements by now. In this article, we will explore the role of supervisors (specifically, supervisors who are not "authorised officers") under the PID Act.

Supervisors are approved recipients of internal public interest disclosures (PIDs) under s 26(1) of the PID Act. The inclusion of supervisors significantly broadens the list of persons to whom internal PIDs may be made.

There are no formal requirements for making a PID under the PID Act. Section 28 provides that a public interest disclosure may be made:

• orally or in writing