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Human Rights Act 2019
sec.64Who may make human rights complaint to commissioner
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### sec.64 Who may make human rights complaint to commissioner
The following persons may make a human rights complaint to the commissioner—
an individual the subject of a public entity’s alleged contravention of section 58 (1) ;
an agent of the individual;
a person authorised in writing by the commissioner to make a complaint for the individual.
For subsection (1) (c) , the commissioner may authorise a person to make a human rights complaint for an individual if satisfied the individual can not make the complaint.
Two or more persons may jointly make a human rights complaint.
(sec.64-ssec.1) The following persons may make a human rights complaint to the commissioner— an individual the subject of a public entity’s alleged contravention of section 58 (1) ; an agent of the individual; a person authorised in writing by the commissioner to make a complaint for the individual.
(sec.64-ssec.2) For subsection (1) (c) , the commissioner may authorise a person to make a human rights complaint for an individual if satisfied the individual can not make the complaint.
(sec.64-ssec.3) Two or more persons may jointly make a human rights complaint.
- (a) an individual the subject of a public entity’s alleged contravention of section 58 (1) ;
- (b) an agent of the individual;
- (c) a person authorised in writing by the commissioner to make a complaint for the individual.