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South Australia
Equal Opportunity (Unlawful Acts at Workplace) Amendment
Bill 2021
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Equal
Opportunity Act 1984
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Equal Opportunity
Act 1984
3Amendment of section 87—Sexual
harassment
90APrevention of
unlawful acts at workplace
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Equal Opportunity (Unlawful Acts at
Workplace) Amendment Act 2021.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Equal Opportunity
Act 1984
3—Amendment
of section 87—Sexual harassment
Section 87(7)—delete subsection (7)
After section 90 insert:
90A—Prevention of unlawful acts at
workplace
(1) The person with
management and control of a workplace (within the meaning of section 20(1)
of the
Work
Health and Safety Act 2012
) must take reasonable steps to prevent, as far as possible, prescribed
unlawful acts at the workplace.
(2) It is unlawful for
a person with management and control of a workplace to fail to comply with
subsection (2)
.
(3) In this section—
prescribed unlawful act means—
(a) an act of victimisation within the meaning of section 86;
or
(b) sexual harassment within the meaning of section 87; or
(c) an act of discrimination rendered unlawful under this Act;
workplace has the same meaning as in section 8 of the
Work
Health and Safety Act 2012
.