Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Act 2022

1 Short title

This Act is the Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Act 2022.

2 Commencement

Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3 Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

4 Review of operation of amendments

The Minister must cause an independent review to be conducted of the operation of the amendments made by this Act.

Without limiting subsection (1), the review must consider whether:

the amendments made by this Act are operating effectively; and

(b) the Australian Human Rights Commission has capacity to carry out the functions relating to compliance with the positive duty in relation to sex discrimination in Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986, as inserted by Part 2 of Schedule 2 to this Act.Division 4A of Part II of the

The review must commence as soon as practicable after the end of the period of 2 years after the day Division 2 of Part 2 of Schedule 2 to this Act commences and, in any event, not later than 3 years after that day.

The persons who conduct the review must give the Minister a written report of the review as soon as practicable and, in any event, not later than 9 months after commencement of the review.

The Minister must cause a copy of the report to be tabled in each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the report is given to the Minister.