WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 107 Prohibition of requesting, instructing, inducing, encouraging, authorising or assisting discriminatory conduct

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 107

  (1)   A person must not request, instruct, induce, encourage, authorise or assist another person to engage in discriminatory conduct in contravention of section   104.

Penalty:   The tier A monetary penalty.

Note:   Civil proceedings may be brought under Division   3 of this Part   if a person requested, instructed, induced, encouraged, authorised or assisted another person to engage in discriminatory conduct for a prohibited reason.

  (2)   For the purposes of the application of the Criminal Code in relation to an offence under subsection   (1), intention is the fault element for the physical element of requesting, instructing, inducing, encouraging, authorising or assisting another person to engage in conduct.