Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) It is unlawful for
an educational authority to discriminate against a person on the ground of the
person’s impairment —
(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 impairment —
(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 who have an impairment which
the applicant does not have.
(4) 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 where the person, if admitted as a student by the educational
authority, would require services or facilities that are not required by
students who do not have an impairment and the provision of which would impose
unjustifiable hardship on the educational authority.
[Section 66I inserted: No. 40 of 1988 s. 8.]