Protected Disclosures Act No. 5 of 2018. Country/Territory Guyana Document type Legislation Date 2018 Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source Official Gazette Legal Supplement – A, 12 February 2018. Long titleAn Act to combat corruption and other wrongdoings by encouraging and facilitating disclosures of improper conduct in the public and private sectors, to protect persons making those disclosures from detrimental action, to establish the Protected Disclosures Commission to receive, investigate or otherwise deal with disclosures of improper conduct and to provide for other related matters. Subject Environment gen. Keyword Protection of environment Public health Offences/penalties Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Geographical area Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, Small Island Developing States, South America Entry into force notes This Act enters into force on the day it is appointed by Ministerial Order. Abstract This Act lays down provisions on the establishment of the Protected Disclosures Commission, protection of the persons making those disclosures from detrimental action and procedures and principles for investigation of improper conducts. According to this Act, improper conduct includes committing a criminal offence; failure to carry out a legal obligation; misleading justice; giving harm to the health or safety of a person or the environment; conduct that tends to show gross mismanagement, carrying out of any improper activity that involves the use of public funds or any financial resources of an employer; and conduct that tends to show unlawful discrimination. Full text English Website parliament.gov.gy