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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2004 Week 02 Hansard (Tuesday, 2 March 2004) . . Page.. 602 ..

41P Joining  parties

(1) This section applies if before the beginning of an investigation, or at any stage during the conduct of an investigation, the commissioner is satisfied that a person ought to be joined as a party to the investigation.

(2) The commissioner may, by written notice given to the person, join that person as a party to the investigation.

41Q Discrimination  commissioner may act on complaint

To remove any doubt, this part does not prevent the discrimination commissioner from acting under the Discrimination Act 1991, section 80 (Investigation without complaint).

41R Annual  report

A report prepared by the human rights commissioner under the Annual Report (Government Agencies) Act 2004 for a financial year must include details of the following:

(a) the number of complaints made under this part during the year;

(b) the number of complaints resolved by conciliation during the year;

(c) the number of complaints the human rights commissioner considers may involve contravention of a human right during the year;

(d) for each complaint mentioned in paragraph (c)—which human right the commissioner considers may have been contravened and whether the contravention was authorised by law.

41S Approved  forms

(1) The human rights commissioner may, in writing, approve forms for this Act.

Note For other provisions about forms, see Legislation Act, s 255.

(2) If the human rights commissioner approves a form for a particular purpose, the approved form must be used for that purpose.

(3) An approved form is a notifiable instrument.

Note A notifiable instrument must be notified under the Legislation Act.

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Schedule 1 Sources  of human rights

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ICCPR source of human rights

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