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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACT 1984 - SECT 66K

66K .         Goods, services and facilities

        (1)         It is unlawful for a person who, whether for payment or not, provides goods or services, or makes facilities available, to discriminate against another person on the ground of the other person’s impairment —

            (a)         by refusing to provide the other person with those goods or services or to make those facilities available to the other person; or

            (b)         in the terms or conditions on which the first-mentioned person provides the other person with those goods or services or makes those facilities available to the other person; or

            (c)         in the manner in which the first-mentioned person provides the other person with those goods or services or makes those facilities available to the other person.

        (2)         This section does not apply to discrimination against a person on the ground of impairment in relation to the provision of a service or facility where, in consequence of the person’s impairment, the person requires the service to be performed or the facility to be made available in a special manner that without unjustifiable hardship —

            (a)         cannot be provided by the person providing the service or making the facility available; or

            (b)         cannot be provided by the person providing the service or making the facility available except on more onerous terms.

        [Section 66K inserted: No. 40 of 1988 s. 8.]



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