Queensland Numbered Acts

RESPECT AT WORK AND OTHER MATTERS AMENDMENT ACT 2024 - SECT 57

57 Amendment of s 52A (Offence of serious racial, religious, sexuality or gender identity vilification)

(1) Section 52A , heading—
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52A Offence of serious vilification on grounds of age, gender identity, impairment, race, religion, sex, sex characteristics or sexual orientation

(2) Section 52A (1) , ‘race, religion, sexuality or gender identity’—
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age, gender identity, impairment, race, religion, sex, sex characteristics or sexual orientation

(3) Section 52A (2) —
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(2) In this section,
"public act" —

(a) includes the following conduct—

(i) any form of communication, including speaking, writing, displaying notices, playing of recorded material, broadcasting and communicating through social media and other electronic methods, to the public;

(ii) any conduct, including actions and gestures and the wearing or display of clothing, signs, flags, emblems and insignia, observable by the public;

(iii) the distribution or dissemination of any matter to the public; but

(b) does not include the distribution or dissemination of any matter by a person to the public if the person does not know, and could not reasonably be expected to know, the content of the matter.

(3) Conduct mentioned in subsection (2)(a) may be a
"public act" even if it happens on private land or in a place that is not ordinarily accessed by the general public.

Examples of places for subsection (3)—

a place of work, an educational facility