Discrimination (Amendment) Act (No 2) 1994 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Discrimination (Amendment) Act (No. 2)

1994

No. 11 of 1994

An Act to amend the Discrimination Act 1991

[Notified in ACT Gazette S44: 14 March 1994]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Discrimination (Amendment) Act (No. 2) 1994.

Commencement

2.  (1)  Section 1 and this section commence on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette.

(2)  The remaining provisions commence 2 months after the date of commencement of section 1 and this section.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Discrimination Act 1991.1

Grounds

4.  Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after paragraph (1) (ib) the following paragraph:

1. profession, trade, occupation or calling;”.

Insertion

5.  After section 57 of the Principal Act the following Division is inserted in Part IV:

Division 7—Exceptions relating to profession, trade, occupation or calling

Discrimination in profession, trade, occupation or calling

“57N. Nothing in Part III renders it unlawful to discriminate against a person on the ground of the profession, trade, occupation or calling of the person in relation to any transaction where profession, trade, occupation or calling is relevant to that transaction and the discrimination is reasonable in those circumstances.”.

NOTE

1. Act No. 81, 1991 as amended by Nos. 25 and 44, 1993; No. 1, 1994.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 15 December 1993]

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