Anti-Discrimination (Age Discrimination) Amendment Act 1993 Proclamation re commencement (1994-269) [GG No 88 of 1.7.1994] (NSW)

1994—No. 269

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (AGE DISCRIMINATION) AMENDMENT ACT 1993 NO. 91—PROCLAMATION

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 88 of I July 1994]

(L.S.) P. R. SINCLAIR, Governor.

I, Rear Admiral PETER ROSS SINCLAIR, A.C., Governor of the State

of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 of the Anti-Discrimination (Age Discrimination) Amendment Act 1993, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 1 July 1994 as the day on which that Act commences.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 22nd day of June, 1994.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. P. Hannaford
Attorney General.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The object of this Proclamation is to commence the provisions of the Anti-Discrimination (Age Discrimination) Act 1993. The Act amends the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 to make it unlawful for persons to discriminate against others on the ground of their age.

The Act itself provides that that part of section 49ZYI that renders it unlawful for an employer to discriminate against a person on the ground of age on the basis that the position concerned is only available for a junior employee is not to commence until a proclaimed day that is not to be earlier than 2 years after the commencement of the new Pm inserted in the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 by the Act; that is, not earlier than 2 years after l July 1994.