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Work Health and Safety Act 2011
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110 Proof of discriminatory conduct
(1) This section applies if, in a proceeding for an offence against
section 104 (Prohibition of discriminatory conduct) or section 107
(Prohibition of requesting, instructing, inducing, encouraging,
authorising or assisting discriminatory conduct), the prosecution—
(a) proves that the discriminatory conduct was engaged in; and
(b) proves that a circumstance referred to in section 106 (a) to (j)
(What is a prohibited reason) existed at the time the
discriminatory conduct was engaged in; and
(c) adduces evidence that the discriminatory conduct was engaged
in for a prohibited reason.
(2) The reason alleged for the discriminatory conduct is presumed to be
the dominant reason for that conduct unless the accused proves, on
the balance of probabilities, that the reason was not the dominant
reason for the conduct.
(3) To avoid doubt, the burden of proof on the accused under
subsection (2) is a legal burden of proof.
Civil proceedings in relation to discriminatory or coercive conduct Division 6.3