(1) Nothing in
section 66W, 66X, 66Y or 66Z renders it unlawful to offer to a person who is
an employee, commission agent, contract worker or partner, on the ground of
the person’s age, participation in a voluntary phased-in retirement
scheme, voluntary retirement scheme, retirement incentives scheme, severance
scheme or other like scheme.
(2) Nothing in this
Part renders it unlawful for a person to discriminate in accordance with an
Act against a person who holds any of the following offices —
(a)
Judge within the meaning of the Judges’ Retirement Act 1937 ;
(b)
master within the meaning of the Supreme Court Act 1935 ;
(c)
District Court judge within the meaning of the District Court of Western
Australia Act 1969 ;
(d)
Family Court judge or acting Family Court judge within the meaning of the
Family Court Act 1997 ;
(e)
judge or magistrate within the meaning of the Children’s Court of
Western Australia Act 1988 ;
(f)
magistrate within the meaning of the Magistrates Court Act 2004 ;
(g)
commissioner within the meaning of the Industrial Relations Act 1979 ,
on the ground of the
person’s age by requiring that person to retire from that office.
[Section 66ZN inserted: No. 74 of 1992 s. 19;
amended: No. 42 of 1997 s. 6; No. 41 of 1997 s. 31; No. 59 of 2004 s. 141; No.
29 of 2006 s. 12; No. 73 of 2006 s. 117; No. 39 of 2018 s. 68.]