Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991 - SECT 160

160 Party fails to attend conference

(1) If a complainant, without reasonable excuse, does not comply with a direction to attend a conciliation conference, the commissioner may dismiss the complaint and direct the complainant to pay costs to the respondent.

(2) If a respondent, without reasonable excuse, does not comply with a direction to attend a conciliation conference, the commissioner may direct the respondent to pay costs to the complainant.

(3) A party may enforce a direction as to costs by filing a copy of it with a court of competent jurisdiction.

(4) The direction is then enforceable as if it were an order of the court.