Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991 - SECT 138

138 Time limit on making complaints

(1) Subject to subsection (2) , a person is only entitled to make a complaint within 1 year of the alleged contravention of the Act .

(2) If a complaint is made more than 1 year after the alleged contravention of the Act , the commissioner must decide—

(a) to accept the complaint, but only if the commissioner is satisfied the complainant has shown good cause; or

(b) otherwise—not to accept the complaint.

(3) Subsection (2) applies subject to section 141A .