Human Rights Act 2019

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.

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.

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

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

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