Offences Part 5
Specific offences Division 2
Section 52
Note:
Complaints can be made to the Commission about conduct that is an
offence under this subsection (see the definition of unlawful
discrimination in subsection 3(1) of the Australian Human Rights
Commission Act 1986, and section 46P of that Act).
Victimisation—threat of detriment
(2) A person (the first person) commits an offence if:
(a) the first person makes to another person (the second person)
a threat to cause detriment to the second person or to a third
person; and
(b) the first person:
(i) intends the second person to fear that the threat will be
carried out; or
(ii) is reckless as to causing the second person to fear that
the threat will be carried out; and
(c) the first person makes the threat because he or she believes in
a matter mentioned in paragraph (1)(e).
Penalty: Imprisonment for 6 months.
Note:
Complaints can be made to the Commission about conduct that is an
offence under this subsection (see the definition of unlawful
discrimination in subsection 3(1) of the Australian Human Rights
Commission Act 1986, and section 46P of that Act).
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), a threat may be:
(a) express or implied; or
(b) conditional or unconditional.
(4) In a prosecution for an offence against subsection (2), it is not
necessary to prove that the person threatened actually feared that
the threat would be carried out.
52 Failure to disclose source of actuarial or statistical data
(1) A person commits an offence if:
(a) the President or the Commission gives the person a notice in
writing under subsection 54(2), requiring the person to
disclose the source of actuarial or statistical data; and
Age Discrimination Act 2004
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