Human Rights Act 2019

As soon as practicable after the end of each financial year, the commissioner must prepare a report (an annual report) about the operation of this Act during the year.

The report must include the following information for the financial year—

details of any examination of the interaction between this Act and other Acts, statutory instruments and the common law;

details of all declarations of incompatibility made;

details of all override declarations made;

details of all interventions by the Attorney-General or the commission under section 50 or 51;

the number of human rights complaints made or referred to the commissioner;

the outcome of human rights complaints accepted by the commissioner for resolution by the commission, including whether or not the complaints were resolved by conciliation or otherwise;

the number of human rights complaints resolved by the commission;

the number of conciliation conferences conducted under this part;

the number of public entities that were asked or directed to take part in a conciliation conference, and the number that failed to comply with a direction to take part;

the number of human rights complaints received by particular public entities decided by the commissioner.

The report may include other information the commissioner considers appropriate, including, for example, the names of public entities and details of action, mentioned in section 88(4), relating to human rights complaints that have not been resolved.

However, the report must not include personal information about an individual unless the information has previously been published, or given for the purpose of publication, by the individual.

The commissioner must give the report to the Attorney-General as soon as practicable after it is prepared.