Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ACT 1975 - SECT 8

             (1)  This Part does not apply to, or in relation to the application of, special measures to which paragraph 4 of Article 1 of the Convention applies except measures in relation to which subsection 10(1) applies by virtue of subsection 10(3).

             (2)  This Part does not apply to:

                     (a)  any provision of a deed, will or other instrument, whether made before or after the commencement of this Part, that confers charitable benefits, or enables charitable benefits to be conferred, on persons of a particular race, colour or national or ethnic origin; or

                     (b)  any act done in order to comply with such a provision.

             (3)  In this section, charitable benefits means benefits for purposes that are exclusively charitable according to the law in force in any State or Territory.