62ACombining complaints

62A Combining complaints

[Section 62A Inserted by No. 42 of 2013, s. 18, Applied:01 Jan 2014]

(1)  If –

(a) the Commissioner has received a complaint, (the original complaint); and

(b) at any time before an investigation into the original complaint has been completed the Commissioner receives another complaint (the second complaint) whether by the person who lodged the original complaint or by another person in relation to the matter to which the original complaint refers or a matter related to the original complaint; and

(c) the Commissioner considers it administratively or otherwise convenient to do so –

the Commissioner may determine that the original complaint and the second complaint be treated as one complaint.

(2)  The Commissioner is not to determine under subsection (1) that two or more complaints be treated as one complaint unless satisfied that any attempt at resolution, including by conciliation, is not likely to be prejudiced by the making of the determination.

(3)  On determining under subsection (1) that two or more complaints be treated as one complaint, the Commissioner is to notify, in writing, all parties to all the complaints of the combining of the complaints.