Western Australian Current Acts

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACT 1984 - SECT 66T

66T .         Insurance

                Nothing in this Part renders it unlawful for a person to discriminate against a person with an impairment on the ground of that person’s impairment with respect to the terms on which an annuity, a life assurance policy, a policy of insurance against accident or any other policy of insurance is offered to or may be obtained by the person with the impairment where the discrimination —

            (a)         is based upon actuarial or statistical data from a source on which it is reasonable to rely or, where there is no such data, on such other data as may be available; and

            (b)         is reasonable having regard to the data, if any, and other relevant factors.

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