Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) An organisation, or an officer or member of an organisation, must not take, or threaten to take, industrial action whose aim, or one of whose aims, is to coerce a person to breach section 21.
(2) An organisation, or an officer or member of an organisation, must not, for a prohibited reason, or for reasons that include a prohibited reason, take or threaten to take, any action whose aim, or one of whose aims, is to prejudice a person in the person's employment, or an independent contractor in the contractor's engagement.
(3) Conduct referred to in subsection (2) is for a prohibited reason if it is carried out because the person has done, or has omitted to do, any act:
(a) under this Act that relates to the formation or registration of an association referred to in paragraph 18(b) or (c); or
(b) in connection with, or in preparation for, such an act or omission.
(4) The examples set out in subsection 21(4) are examples of acts or omissions to which subsection (3) of this section applies.
(5) An organisation, or an officer or member of an organisation, must not impose, or threaten to impose, a penalty, forfeiture or disability of any kind on a member of the organisation because the member concerned does or proposes to do, for a prohibited reason, an act or omission referred to in subsection 21(3).