Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991 - SECT 125

125 Act’s freedom from associated highly objectionable conduct 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 prohibiting and penalising certain highly objectionable conduct that is inconsistent with the other purposes of the Act .

(2) This purpose is to be achieved by—

(a) prohibiting certain conduct; and

(b) allowing a complaint under chapter 7 to be made against a person who has engaged in that conduct; and

(c) making that conduct an offence; and

(d) using the agencies and procedures established under chapter 7 and the relevant tribunal Act to deal with the complaint or offence.