Who can request advice?
The Integrity Commissioner may provide advice to ‘designated persons’:
- a member of the Legislative Assembly;
- a statutory office holder;
- a chief executive of a public service entity;
- a senior executive;
- a chief executive of, or a senior officer equivalent employed in a government entity, who is nominated by the Minister responsible for administering the entity;
- a ministerial staff member who performs the role of chief of staff (however called) in the office of a Minister; and
- a person or, or a person within a class of persons, prescribed by regulation.
Within two years after ceasing to be a designated person or a ministerial advisor, a person may ask for the integrity commissioner’s advice on an ethics or integrity issue that arises from a post separation obligation.
All designated persons can seek advice with regard to their own issues involving ethics or integrity.
