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2002-2003-2004
The Parliament
of the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Sex
Discrimination Amendment (Teaching Profession) Bill (No. 2)
2004
No. ,
2004
(Attorney-General)
A
Bill for an Act to amend the Sex Discrimination Act 1984, and for related
purposes
Contents
Sex Discrimination Act
1984 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the Sex Discrimination Act
1984, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Sex Discrimination Amendment (Teaching
Profession) Act (No. 2) 2004.
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal
Assent.
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any
other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its
terms.
1 After section 38
Insert:
(1) Nothing in Division 1 or 2 renders it unlawful for a person to
discriminate against another person, on the ground of the other person’s
sex, by offering scholarships to persons of the opposite sex in respect of their
participation as students in a teaching course, if the scholarships are offered
in order to redress a gender imbalance in teaching.
(2) In this section:
gender imbalance in teaching means an imbalance in the ratio
of male to female teachers:
(a) in schools in Australia generally; or
(b) in a particular category or categories of schools in Australia;
or
(c) in a particular school or schools in Australia.
scholarship includes assistance or support that is similar to
a scholarship.
school includes a pre-school.
teaching course means a course of study that leads to a
qualification for teaching students at schools in Australia.