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84 Response to a sexual harassment FWC application
(1) A person named in a sexual harassment FWC application as:
(a) a person alleged to have engaged in sexual harassment; or
(b) an employer or principal of:
(i) an aggrieved person in respect of the application; or
(ii) a person alleged to have engaged in sexual harassment;
must lodge a response by the person to the application with the FWC within 7 days after the day on which the person was served with the application.
Note 2: For the meaning of aggrieved person, see subsection 527F(1) of the Act.
(2) However, the person may lodge one response by the person in respect of 2 or more sexual harassment FWC applications if:
(a) the applications are lodged at the same time; and
(b) the applications are in respect of the same alleged contraventions, or related alleged contraventions, of Division 2 of Part 3‑5A of the Act.