Western Australian Consolidated Acts

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACT 1984 - SECT 89

89 .         Commissioner may dismiss certain complaints

        (1)         Where, at any stage of an investigation, the Commissioner is satisfied that a complaint is frivolous, vexatious, misconceived, lacking in substance or relates to an act that is not unlawful by reason of a provision of this Act, the Commissioner may, by notice in writing addressed to the complainant, dismiss the complaint.

        (2)         The Commissioner shall, in a notice under subsection (1), advise the complainant of — 

            (a)         the reason for dismissing the complaint; and

            (b)         the rights of the complainant under section 90.

        [Section 89 amended by No. 40 of 1988 s. 16.]