Western Australian Current Acts

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACT 1984 - SECT 74

74 .         Establishments providing housing accommodation for aged persons

        (1)         In this section, institution means an establishment which provides housing accommodation and ancillary services for aged persons, whether under statute or otherwise.

        (2)         Nothing in this Act affects —

            (a)         any rule or practice of an institution which restricts admission thereto to applicants of any class, type, sex, race, age or religious or political conviction; or

            (b)         the provision of benefits, facilities or services to such persons as are admitted to such an institution.

        (3)         Persons with an impairment or a particular class or type of impairment shall not be regarded as constituting a class or type of applicant for the purposes of subsection (2).

        (3a)         Gender reassigned persons shall not be regarded as constituting a class or type of applicant for the purposes of subsection (2).

        (4)         Subsection (2)(b) does not apply to discrimination on the ground of age in the provision of benefits, facilities or services to such persons as are admitted to an institution referred to in subsection (2)(a).

        [Section 74 amended: No. 40 of 1988 s. 11; No. 74 of 1992 s. 23; No. 57 of 1997 s. 55(3); No. 2 of 2000 s. 28.]