New South Wales
Anti-Discrimination Amendment Act
1997 No 9Contents
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Schedule 1 Amendments 3
New South Wales
Anti-Discrimination Amendment Act
1997 No 9
Act No 9, 1997
An Act to amend the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 so as to prohibit sexual harassment, to ensure that Ministers and other Members of Parliament are liable for their own acts of sexual harassment; and for other purposes. [Assented to 20 May 1997]
Section 1 Anti-Discrimination Amendment Act 1997 No 9 The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:
1 Name of Act
This Act is the Anti-Discrimination Amendment Act 1997.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation.
3 Amendment of Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 No 48
The Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 is amended as set out in
Schedule 1.Anti-Discrimination Amendment Act 1997 No 9
Amendments Schedule 1 Schedule 1 Amendments (Section 3)
Section 4 Definitions
Omit the definition of corporation from section 4 (1).
Insert in alphabetical order:
corporation has the same meaning as in the
Corporations Law.
Department and Department Head have the same
meanings as they have in the Public Sector Management
Act 1988.
Section 4 (1) definition of “private educational authority”
Omit “Education and Public Instruction Act 1987” from paragraph
(a). administering that Act)”.
Section 4 (1) definition of “private educational authority”
Omit “, the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music Act
1965” from paragraph (a).
Section 4 definition of “services” Omit “and” from paragraph (d). Section 4 definition of “services” Insert after paragraph (e):
(f)
services consisting of access to, and the use of any facilities in, any place or vehicle that the public or a section of the public is entitled or allowed to enter or use, for payment or not.
Anti-Discrimination Amendment Act 1997 No 9
Schedule 1 Amendments [6] Section 4 (7)
Omit the subsection.
[7] Section 48
Insert after section 4A:
4B Interpretation of references to the employer of people in
the Public Service, Police Service or Education Teaching
Service
(1) A reference in this Act to an employer:
(a)
in relation to employment in a Department, is a reference to the relevant Department Head, and
(b)
in relation to employment in the Police Service, is a reference to the Commissioner of Police, and
(c)
in relation to employment in the Education Teaching Service, is a reference to the Director-General of the Department of School Education.
Anything determined or done with respect to any matter concerning any such employment by an officer or employee in any Department, in the Police Service or in the Education Teaching Service who is authorised to determine and do things in that respect is taken to have been determined or done by the Department Head, Commissioner of Police or Director-General of the Department of School Education, respectively.
(3) Subsection (2) includes anything determined or done
with respect to:
(a) any offer of employment, or (b)
the…