71ACommission may treat new entity as respondent

71A Commission may treat new entity as respondent (1) This section applies if the commission is considering a complaint, and is satisfied on reasonable grounds that— (a) the complaint should have been made against an entity (the new entity) other than the respondent; or (b) the complaint could have been made by the complainant against an entity (also the new entity) as well as the respondent. (2) The commission may, by written notice given to the complainant and the new entity, elect to treat the new entity as a respondent in the (3) If the commission elects to treat the new entity as a respondent in the (a) the new entity is taken to be a respondent in the complaint for this Act and related Acts; and (b) the complaint is taken to have been made against the new entity at the time the commission elected to treat the new entity as a (4) Also, the commission must take reasonably practicable steps to ensure that the new entity is not disadvantaged only because the commission elected to treat the entity as a respondent in the complaint rather than waiting for a new complaint to be made about the entity.