AGE DISCRIMINATION ACT 2004 - SECT 14 Discrimination on the ground of age--direct discrimination

AGE DISCRIMINATION ACT 2004 - SECT 14

    For the purposes of this Act, a person (the discriminator ) discriminates against another person (the aggrieved person ) on the ground of the age of the aggrieved person if:

  (a)   the discriminator treats or proposes to treat the aggrieved person less favourably than, in circumstances that are the same or are not materially different, the discriminator treats or would treat a person of a different age; and

  (b)   the discriminator does so because of:

  (i)   the age of the aggrieved person; or

  (ii)   a characteristic that appertains generally to persons of the age of the aggrieved person; or

  (iii)   a characteristic that is generally imputed to persons of the age of the aggrieved person.