237AProtection from reprisals for persons making notifications or otherwise providing information, documents or assistance

237A Protection from reprisals for persons making notifications or otherwise providing information, documents or assistance

237A Protection from reprisals for persons making notifications or otherwise providing information, documents or assistance

(1) A person must not—

(a) use threats or intimidation to attempt to persuade another person not to take protected action; or

(b) dismiss, or refuse to employ, another person because, or in the belief that, the other person has taken, or intends to take, protected action; or

(c) subject another person to other detriment or reprisal because, or in the belief that, the other person has taken, or intends to take, protected action.

Maximum penalty—

(a) for an individual—$60,000; or

(b) for a body corporate—$120,000.

(2) In this section—

protected action means—

(a) making a notification, in good faith, under this Law; or

(b) giving information, documents or other assistance in the course of an investigation or for another purpose under this Law to a person exercising functions under this Law.

s 237A: Ins 2025 No 6, sec 22.