(1) A person who claims not to be receiving, or not to have received, equal pension treatment in accordance with this Part or to have been penalised in circumstances amounting to victimisation may, subject to subsections (3) to (6) and subsections (1) and (2) of section 81F, seek redress by referring the case to the Director General of the Workplace Relations Commission.

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(3) If the grounds for such a claim arise in relation to a breach of the principle of equal pension treatment on the gender ground, the person making the claim may, subject to subsections (4) to (7) and section 81F(1), seek redress by referring the case to the Circuit Court instead of to the Director General of the Workplace Relations Commission.

(4) In this Part, in relation to a case referred under any provision of this section or section 81F -

"the complainant " means - (i) the person by whom it is referred, or (ii) where such a person is unable, by reason of an intellectual or a psychological disability, to pursue it effectively, his or her parent, guardian or other person acting in place of a parent;