Western Australian Current Acts

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACT 1984 - SECT 140

140 .         Objects of Part IX

                The objects of this Part are —

            (a)         to eliminate and ensure the absence of discrimination in employment on the ground of sex, marital status, pregnancy, family responsibility or family status, sexual orientation, race, religious or political conviction, impairment, age or the publication of relevant details on the Fines Enforcement Registrar’s website; and

            (aa)         to eliminate and ensure the absence of discrimination in employment against gender reassigned persons on gender history grounds; and

            (b)         to promote equal employment opportunity for all persons,

                in the authorities to which this Part applies.

        [Section 140 amended: No. 40 of 1988 s. 27; No. 74 of 1992 s. 34; No. 2 of 2000 s. 28; No. 3 of 2002 s. 57; No. 48 of 2012 s. 54.]