Queensland Consolidated Acts

HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 2019 - SECT 75

75 Dealing with human rights complaint under Anti-Discrimination Act 1991

(1) This section applies if the commissioner considers a human rights complaint made or referred to the commissioner would be more appropriately dealt with by the commission as a complaint about an alleged contravention of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 .

(2) The commissioner may, with the consent of the complainant, deal with the complaint under the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 as an alleged contravention of that Act.

(3) For dealing with the complaint as mentioned in subsection (2) , the complaint—

(a) is taken to be a complaint about an alleged contravention of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 that is accepted by the commissioner under section 141 of that Act; and

(b) is taken to be made on the day the human rights complaint was made or referred.