POLITICIANS have been deemed ''unique'' by the Baillieu government and will escape the full scrutiny of Victoria's new anti-corruption regime, with all whistleblower complaints about MPs to be first handled by MPs themselves.

The special treatment of MPs in the state's new integrity framework comes as a growing consensus of accountability experts and Victoria's legal fraternity condemns the new regime as unworkable, too complex and a lawyers' picnic.

Unlike the New South Wales integrity regime, where whistleblower complaints about politicians can be sent directly to its anti-corruption commission, the Victorian Parliament will remain the major complaints-handling body for MPs.

The Baillieu government built its case for a new corruption-busting body on the back of the ''corrupt'' behaviour by Labor politicians but, in the fine detail of its latest legislation, has shirked from forcing Parliament's key officers to report serious corrupt conduct of MPs to the new Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission.