Integrity Act 2009
An Act to provide for the Queensland Integrity Commissioner and Office of the Queensland Integrity Commissioner, to facilitate the giving of advice to Ministers, chief executives and others on ethics or integrity issues, to ensure Ministers, chief executives and others appropriately manage conflicts of interest, and to regulate particular lobbying activities with government representatives and Opposition representatives including by a code of conduct, a training course and directives
Chapter 1 Preliminary
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Integrity Act 2009.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation.
3 Dictionary
The dictionary in schedule 2 defines particular words used in this Act.Note—
Core concepts for chapter 3 are defined in chapter 3, part 1, and core concepts for chapter 4 are defined in chapter 4, part 1, with signposts to those definitions set out in schedule 2.
4 Purpose
The purpose of this Act is to encourage confidence in public institutions by—(a)helping Ministers, members of the Legislative Assembly, and others to deal appropriately with ethics or integrity issues; and(b)regulating contact between lobbyists and State or local government representatives, and contact between lobbyists and key representatives for the Opposition, so that lobbying is conducted in accordance with public expectations of transparency and integrity.
5 Act binds all persons
(1)This Act binds all persons including the State and, as far as the legislative power of the Parliament permits, the Commonwealth and all the other States.(2)Subsection (1) does not make the State, the Commonwealth or another State liable for an offence.
Chapter 2 Queensland Integrity Commissioner and Office of the Queensland Integrity Commissioner
6 Integrity commissioner and integrity office
(1)There is to be a Queensland Integrity Commissioner.(2)The integrity commissioner is an officer of the Parliament.(3)There is to be a Queensland Deputy Integrity Commissioner.(4)An office called the Office of the Queensland Integrity Commissioner is established.(5)The integrity office consists of the integrity commissioner, the deputy integrity commissioner and the integrity officers.Note—
The administrative provisions for the integrity commissioner, deputy integrity commissioner and integrity office are set out in chapter 5.
7 Functions of integrity commissioner
(1)The integrity commissioner has the following functions—(a)to give written advice to a designated person, former designated person or former ministerial advisor on ethics or integrity issues as provided for under chapter 3, part 2;(b)to meet with, and give written or oral advice to, members of the Legislative Assembly as provided for under chapter 3, part 3;(c)to keep the lobbying register and have responsibility for the registration of lobbyists under chapter 4, and to provide education and training to government representatives, Opposition representatives and registered lobbyists about the operation of chapter 4;(d)to raise public awareness of ethics or integrity issues by contributing to public discussion of these issues relevant to the integrity commissioner’s functions.(2)However, in performing the function mentioned in…