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Integrity Sport and Recreation Act 2023

Powers, investigations, and disciplinary panels - Integrity investigations - Powers relating to investigation under section 31 or 32

39: No retaliation against participant who makes complaint or provides information to Commission

You could also call this:

"You're protected from being treated unfairly if you complain or tell the Commission something."

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If you make a complaint to the Commission or give them information, an organisation in the sport and physical recreation sector must not be mean to you because of it. You might make a complaint or give information for an investigation under section 31 or 32. The organisation must not retaliate against you.

If an organisation retaliates, it means they are being mean to you on purpose, like treating you unfairly compared to others in your sport or activity. This can include things like not picking you for a team when you should be picked. The organisation must treat you fairly, just like they treat other people in your sport or activity.

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Part 4Powers, investigations, and disciplinary panels
Integrity investigations: Powers relating to investigation under section 31 or 32

39No retaliation against participant who makes complaint or provides information to Commission

  1. An organisation in the sport and physical recreation sector must not retaliate, or threaten to retaliate, against a participant because the participant—

  2. makes or intends to make a complaint to the Commission; or
    1. provides or intends to provide information to the Commission for the purposes of an investigation under section 31 or 32.

      1. For the purpose of this section, retaliate, in relation to a participant, means subjecting, or organising to subject, the participant to any detriment or disadvantage (including any detrimental or disadvantageous effect on the participant’s selection for activities, events, or competitions in sport or physical recreation) in circumstances in which other participants in those activities, events, or competitions are not or would not be subjected to such detriment or disadvantage.