WESTERN AUSTRALIA
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
NT ACT 1992
No. 74 of 1992
AN ACT to amend the Equal Opportunity Act 1984.
[Assented to 11 December 1992.]
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Equal Opportunity Amendment
Act 1992.
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Commencement
2. (1) Subject to sections 9 (2) and 36 (2) and subsection (2) of
this section, this Act comes into operation on the day on which it
receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Sections 4-8, 10-31, 33-35 and 37-40 shall come into operation on the 28th day after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
Principal Act
3. In this Act, the Equal Opportunity Act 1984* is referred to as the principal Act.
[* Act No. 83 of 1984.
For subsequent amendments, see 1991 Index to
Legislation of Western Australia, p.66.]
Long title amended
4. The long title to the principal Act is amended by inserting
after —
| (a) | "pregnancy," the following — |
if
family responsibility or family status,
| (b) | "impairment," the following — |
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| or age, | "; and |
| (c) | "involving sexual" the following — |
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or racial
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Section 3 amended
5. Section 3 of the principal Act is amended —
(a) in paragraph (a) —
(i) by inserting after "pregnancy," the following —
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family responsibility or family status,
and
(ii) by deleting "or impairment" and substituting the following —
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, impairment or age
(b) in paragraph (b) by inserting after "sexual harassment" in both places where it occurs the following —
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| and racial harassment | "; and |
(c) in paragraph (d) by deleting "impairment" and
substituting the following —
impairments or ages ".
Section 4 amended
6. Section 4 of the principal Act is amended in subsection
(1) —
(a) by inserting, in the appropriate alphabetical positions,
the following definitions —
It
"age", in relation to a person, means
chronological age of the person;
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"charitable benefits" means benefits for purposes that are exclusively charitable according to the law in force in Western Australia;
"family responsibility or family status", in relation to a person, means —
| (a) | having responsibility for the care of another person, whether or not that person is a dependant, other than in the course of paid employment; |
| (b) | the status of being a particular relative; or |
| (c) | the status of being a relative of a particular person; |
"relative", in relation to a person, means a person who is related to the firstmentioned person by blood, marriage, affinity or adoption and includes a person who is wholly or mainly dependent on, or is a member of the household of, the firstmentioned person;
(b) by deleting "includes an impairment which presently exists or existed in the past but has now ceased to exist" in the definition of "impairment" and substituting the following —
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includes an impairment —
| (d) | which presently exists or… |