Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991 - SECT 7

    (1)     This Act applies to discrimination on the ground of any of the following attributes:

        (a)     sex;

        (b)     sexuality;

        (c)     transsexuality;

        (d)     relationship status;

        (e)     status as a parent or carer;

        (f)     pregnancy;

        (g)     breastfeeding;

        (h)     race;

              (i)     religious or political conviction;

        (j)     disability;

        (k)     membership or nonmembership of an association or organisation of employers or employees;

        (l)     age;

        (m)     profession, trade, occupation or calling;

        (n)     association (whether as a relative or otherwise) with a person identified by reference to an attribute referred to in another paragraph of this subsection;

        (o)     spent conviction within the meaning of the Spent Convictions Act 2000 .

    (2)     In this Act, a reference to an attribute mentioned in subsection (1) includes—

        (a)     a characteristic that people with that attribute generally have; and

        (b)     a characteristic that people with that attribute are generally presumed to have; and

        (c)     such an attribute that a person is presumed to have; and

        (d)     such an attribute that the person had in the past but no longer has.