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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACT 1984 - SECT 66ZN

66ZN .         Retirement

        (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.]



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