Public Interest Disclosure (Treasury) Appointments 2023

I, Roxanne Kelley, Deputy Secretary, Corporate and Foreign Investment Group, Department of the Treasury, delegate of the Secretary to the Treasury, make the following appointments.

Dated   14 March 2023

Roxanne Kelley

Deputy Secretary
Corporate and Foreign Investment Group
Department of the Treasury

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name 

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

Part 2—Appointment of authorised officers

5  Appointment of authorised officers

Part 3—Revocation

6  Revocation of previous appointments of authorised officers

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name

  This instrument is the Public Interest Disclosure (Treasury) Appointment 2023.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Definitions

Note: Expressions have the same meaning in this instrument as in the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 as in force from time to time—see paragraph 13(1)(b) of the Legislation Act 2003.

  In this instrument:

Assistant Secretary (governance) means the SES Band 1 with general responsibility for an agency’s general fraud prevention and control policies.

Note: In 2023, the Assistant Secretary, Executive Coordination and Governance, Corporate Division, Corporate and Foreign Investment Group, had general responsibility for Treasury’s general fraud prevention and control policies.

Director (governance) means the EL2 employee with general responsibility for an agency’s general fraud prevention and control policies.

Note: In 2023, the Director, Treasury Integrity, Portfolio Governance and Appointments, Executive Coordination and Governance Branch, Corporate Division, Corporate and Foreign Investment Group, had general responsibility for Treasury’s general fraud prevention and control policies.

EL2 employee means an APS employee who has been allocated an Executive Level 2 classification.

SES Band 1 means an SES employee who has been allocated an SES Band 1 classification.

the Act means the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013.

the Treasury means the Department of the Treasury.

Part 2—Appointment of authorised officers

5  Appointment of authorised officers

  Under section 36 of the Act, any person holding, occupying or performing the duties of any of the following offices or positions in the Treasury is appointed as an authorised officer under the Act:

 (a) Deputy Secretary of Corporate and Foreign Investment Group;

 (b) if Corporate and Foreign Investment Group ceases to exist or is renamed—the Deputy Secretary of the Group with general responsibility for corporate services;

 (c) Assistant Secretary (governance);

 (d) Director (governance).

Note 1: Under the Act, the Secretary to the Treasury is also an authorised officer—see section 36.

Note 2: Authorised officers have also been appointed under the following instruments:

(a) Treasury Portfolio Governance (Australian Office of Financial Management) Instrument 2023; and

(b) Treasury Portfolio Governance (Commonwealth Grants Commission) Instrument 2023; and

(c) Treasury Portfolio Governance (Royal Australian Mint) Instrument 2023.

Part 3—Revocation

6  Revocation of previous appointments of authorised officers

  The appointment of authorised officers made on 18 August 2022 is revoked.