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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACT 1984 - SECT 18

18 .         Education

        (1)         It is unlawful for an educational authority to discriminate against a person on the ground of the person’s sex, marital status, pregnancy or breast feeding —

            (a)         by refusing or failing to accept the person’s application for admission as a student; or

            (b)         in the terms or conditions on which it is prepared to admit the person as a student.

        (2)         It is unlawful for an educational authority to discriminate against a student on the ground of the student’s sex, marital status, pregnancy or breast feeding —

            (a)         by denying the student access, or limiting the student’s access, to any benefit provided by the educational authority; or

            (b)         by expelling the student; or

            (c)         by subjecting the student to any other detriment.

        (3)         Nothing in this section applies to or in respect of a refusal or failure to accept a person’s application for admission as a student at an educational institution that is conducted solely for students of the opposite sex to the sex of the applicant.

        [Section 18 amended: No. 2 of 2010 s. 13.]



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