This Act is about managing diseases and pests that may cause harm to human, animal or plant health or the environment.
The first chapter includes preliminary provisions (such as the extension of this Act to external Territories, and the relationship of this Act with other Australian laws).
It also includes the definitions for this Act, provisions that relate to the Constitution and international law, and principles affecting decisions to exercise certain powers under this Act.
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Summary of the objects of this Act are:
(a) to eliminate, as far as possible, discrimination against persons on the ground of disability in the areas of:
(i) work, accommodation, education, access to premises, clubs and sport; and
(ii) the provision of goods, facilities, services and land; and
(iii) existing laws; and
(iv) the administration of Commonwealth laws and programs; and
(b) to ensure, as far as practicable, that persons with disabilities have the same rights to equality before the law as the rest of the community; and
(c) to promote recognition and acceptance within the community of the principle that persons with disabilities have the same fundamental rights as the rest of the community.
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Fact sheet 5:The International Bill of Rights. click here to learn more
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PRIVACY ACT 1988 – SECT 94H
Requiring the use of COVIDSafe
(1) A person commits an offence if the person requires another person to:
(a) download COVIDSafe to a communication device; or
(b) have COVIDSafe in operation on a communication device; or
(c) consent to uploading COVID app data from a communication device to the National COVIDSafe Data Store.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years or 300 penalty units, or both.
(2) A person commits an offence if the person:
(a) refuses to enter into, or continue, a contract or arrangement with another person (including a contract of employment); or
(b) takes adverse action (within the meaning of the Fair Work Act 2009 ) against another person; or
(c) refuses to allow another person to enter:
(i) premises that are otherwise accessible to the public; or
(ii) premises that the other person has a right to enter; or
(d) refuses to allow another person to participate in an activity; or
(e) refuses to receive goods or services from another person, or insists on providing less monetary consideration for the goods or services; or
(f) refuses to provide goods or services to another person, or insists on receiving more monetary consideration for the goods or services;
on the ground that, or on grounds that include the ground that, the other person:
(g) has not downloaded COVIDSafe to a communication device; or
(h) does not have COVIDSafe in operation on a communication device; or
(i) has not consented to uploading COVID app data from a communication device to the National COVIDSafe Data Store.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years or 300 penalty units, or both.
(3) To avoid doubt:
(a) subsection (2) is a workplace law for the purposes of the Fair Work Act 2009 ; and
(b) the benefit that the other person derives because of an obligation of the person under subsection (2) is a workplace right within the meaning of Part 3-1 of that Act.
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This Act may be cited as the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986.
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Are you aware of the geographical locations that the meaning of Australia is given?
Meaning of Australia
Territories
(1) Australia , when used in a geographical sense, includes each of the following:
(a) Norfolk Island;
(b) the Coral Sea Islands Territory;
(c) the Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands;
(d) the Territory of Christmas Island;
(e) the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands;
(f) the Territory of Heard Island and the McDonald Islands.
Note: Section 15B of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 provides that an Act is taken to have effect in the coastal sea of Australia as if the coastal sea were part of Australia.
Offshore areas
(2) Australia , when used in a geographical sense, includes an offshore area for the purposes of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 .
Note 1: The offshore area includes all things located in that area, including all installations and structures such as oil and gas rigs. The area also extends to the airspace over, and the sea – bed and subsoil beneath, that area.
Note 2: The offshore area includes the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf of Australia.