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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACT 1984 - SECT 35AG

35AG .         Professional or trade organisations

        (1)         This section applies to an organisation of employees and to an organisation of employers.

        (2)         It is unlawful for an organisation to which this section applies, or for the committee of management of such an organisation, or for a member of such a committee of management, to discriminate on gender history grounds against a gender reassigned person who is not a member of the organisation —

            (a)         by refusing or failing to accept the gender reassigned person’s application for membership; or

            (b)         in the terms or conditions on which the organisation is prepared to admit the gender reassigned person to membership.

        (3)         It is unlawful for an organisation to which this section applies or for the committee of management of such an organisation or for a member of such a committee of management to discriminate on gender history grounds against a gender reassigned person who is a member of the organisation —

            (a)         by denying the gender reassigned person access, or limiting the gender reassigned person’s access, to any benefit provided by the organisation; or

            (b)         by depriving the gender reassigned person of membership or varying the terms of the gender reassigned person’s membership; or

            (c)         by subjecting the gender reassigned person to any other detriment.

        [Section 35AG inserted: No. 2 of 2000 s. 28.]



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