Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991 - SECT 19

19 Discrimination by industrial, professional, trade or business organisation in pre-membership area

(1) An organisation of workers, employers, or people who carry on an industry, profession, trade or business must not discriminate—

(a) in failing to accept a person’s application for membership of the organisation; or

(b) in the arrangements made for deciding who may join; or

(c) in deciding who may join; or

(d) in the terms on which a person may join.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to discrimination on the basis of trade union activity if the Industrial Relations Act 2016 , chapter 12 , part 9 , division 2 or part 10 applies.