Anti-Discrimination Act 1998 (TAS)

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Anti-Discrimination Act 1998

An Act to prohibit discrimination and other specified conduct and to provide for the investigation and conciliation of, and inquiry into, complaints in relation to such discrimination and conduct

[Royal Assent 18 December 1998]

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

PART 1Preliminary1Short titleThis Act may be cited as the Anti-Discrimination Act 1998. 2CommencementThis Act commences on a day to be proclaimed. 3InterpretationIn this Act – accommodation includes residential and business accommodation; adult means a person who has attained the age of 18 years; authorised person means a person authorised by the Commissioner; award means an award made under the Industrial Relations Act 1984; [Section 3 Amended by No. 31 of 2012, s. 4, Applied:01 May 2013] [Section 3 Amended by No. 42 of 2013, s. 4, Applied:01 Jan 2014] [Section 3 Amended by No. 42 of 2013, s. 4, Applied:01 Jan 2014] child means a person who has not attained the age of 18 years and includes a natural child, adopted child, stepchild, foster child or ex-nuptial child; [Section 3 Amended by No. 42 of 2013, s. 4, Applied:01 Jan 2014] club means an incorporated or unincorporated association of at least 30 persons associated together for a lawful purpose that provides and maintains its facilities, wholly or partly, from the funds of the association; commission means a body authorised by any Act to conduct inquiries; Commissioner means the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner appointed under section 5; competitive sporting activity means any sporting activity that has a competitive element excluding – (a) [Section 3 Amended by No. 42 of 2013, s. 4, Applied:01 Jan 2014] coaching and umpiring; or (b) administration of any sporting activity; complaint means a complaint made in relation to discrimination or prohibited conduct; conduct of a sexual nature includes – (a) making an oral or written statement of a sexual nature to a person or in the presence of a person; and (b) displaying matter of a sexual nature that relates to a prescribed attribute; [Section 3 Amended by No. 45 of 2003, Sched. 1, Applied:01 Jan 2004] detriment includes humiliation or denigration; disability means any of the following that presently exists, previously existed but no longer exists, may exist in the future, whether or not arising from an illness, disease or injury or from a condition subsisting at birth: (a) a total or partial loss of the person’s bodily or mental functions; (b) total or partial loss of a part of the body; (c) the presence in the body of organisms causing or capable of causing disease or illness; (d) the malfunction, malformation or disfigurement of a part of a person’s body; (e) disorder, malformation, malfunction or disfigurement that results in the person learning differently from a person without the disorder, malformation, malfunction or disfigurement; (f) a disorder, illness or disease that affects…

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