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SEX DISCRIMINATION ACT 1984 - SECT 116

Regulations

    The Governor - General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing matters:

  (a)   required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

  (b)   necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

An employer or a person conducting a business or undertaking must take reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate, as far as possible, certain discriminatory conduct.

Division   4A of Part   II of the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 confers functions on the President in relation to this duty, including inquiring into compliance, giving compliance notices and accepting undertakings.


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