Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991 - SECT 117

117 Act’s freedom from sexual harassment purpose and how it is to be achieved

(1) One of the purposes of the Act is to promote equality of opportunity for everyone by protecting them from sexual harassment.

(2) This purpose is to be achieved by—

(a) prohibiting sexual harassment; and

(b) allowing a complaint to be made under chapter 7 against a person who has sexually harassed; and

(c) using the agencies and procedures established under chapter 7 to deal with the complaint.