Under the current version of the PSDPA, in section 19.1 former public servants may make a complaint of reprisal to the PSIC. They are not prevented from making a reprisal complaint.
Clause 8 of the bill, the way it is currently written, has nothing to do with that. It's adding references to former public servants in making a disclosure to the public or the right to provide information to the public. It doesn't affect their right to make a reprisal complaint in any way.