Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

DISCRIMINATION AMENDMENT ACT 2016 (NO. 49 OF 2016) - SECT 20

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7     Protected attributes

    (1)     This Act applies to discrimination on the ground of any of the following attributes (a protected attribute ):

        (a)     accommodation status;

        (b)     age;

Examples—par (b)

because the person is a child or young person or an older person

Note     An example is part of the Act, is not exhaustive and may extend, but does not limit, the meaning of the provision in which it appears (see Legislation Act

, s 126 and s 132).

        (c)     association (whether as a relative or otherwise) with a person who is identified by reference to another protected attribute;

        (d)     breastfeeding;

        (e)     disability;

        (f)     employment status;

        (g)     gender identity;

        (h)     genetic information;

              (i)     immigration status;

        (j)     industrial activity;

        (k)     intersex status;

        (l)     irrelevant criminal record;

        (m)     parent, family, carer or kinship responsibilities;

        (n)     physical features;

        (o)     political conviction;

        (p)     pregnancy;

        (q)     profession, trade, occupation or calling;

        (r)     race;

        (s)     record of a person's sex having been altered under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1997

or a law of another jurisdiction that corresponds, or substantially, corresponds, to the Act

, section 26 (Alteration of register);

        (t)     relationship status;    

        (u)     religious conviction;

              (v)     sex;

        (w)     sexuality;

              (x)     subjection to domestic or family violence.

    (2)     For this Act, "protected attribute" includes—

        (a)     a characteristic that people with the attribute generally have; and

        (b)     a characteristic that people with the attribute are generally presumed to have; and

        (c)     the attribute that a person has; and

        (d)     the attribute that a person has had in the past, whether or not the person still has the attribute; and

        (e)     the attribute that a person is thought to have, whether or not the person has the attribute; and

        (f)     the attribute that a person is thought to have had in the past, whether or not the person has had the attribute in the past.