Part 5 Other offences
Section 107
Part 5—Other offences
107 Failure to provide actuarial data or statistical data
(1) If a person has engaged in an act of discrimination that would,
apart from section 46, be unlawful, the President or the
Commission may, by notice in writing served on the person as
prescribed, require the person within 28 days after service of the
notice on the person, to disclose to the President or to the
Commission, as the case may be, the source of the actuarial or
statistical data on which the act of discrimination was based and,
where the President or the Commission, as the case may be, makes
such a requirement of a person, the person must not fail to comply
with the requirement.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
(1A) Subsection (1) does not apply if the person has a reasonable
excuse.
Note:
A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in
subsection (1A) (see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code).
(1B) Subsection (1) is an offence of strict liability.
Note:
For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.
(2) Subsection 4K(2) of the Crimes Act 1914 does not apply to this
section.
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Disability Discrimination Act 1992
Compilation No. 33
Compilation date: 12/4/18
Authorised Version C2018C00125 registered 19/04/2018
Registered: 19/4/18