Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991 - SECT 263G

263G Communication effected by giving of document

(1) This section applies if the commissioner is required or permitted under this Act, in relation to a complaint, to communicate with a relevant party for the complaint including, for example, by doing any of the following—

(a) notifying the relevant party of something, whether or not in writing;

(b) asking or telling the relevant party something, whether or not in writing;

(c) giving the relevant party reasons for something, whether or not in writing;

(d) giving the relevant party a direction, or otherwise ordering the relevant party to do something, whether or not in writing;

(e) writing to the relevant party to tell the relevant party something.

(2) The commissioner may effect the communication by—

(a) putting the substance of the communication into a document; and

(b) giving the document to the relevant party in a way provided for under this part for the giving of a document to a relevant party for a complaint.

Example—

Section 169 (1) includes a requirement for the commissioner to tell a complainant in writing that a complaint will lapse unless the complainant indicates that the complainant wishes to continue with it. The commissioner may tell the complainant about the lapsing of the complaint by including the information in a document and posting the document to the complainant’s address for service.