RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ACT 1975 No. 52, 1975 - SECT 24 Civil proceedings.

RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ACT 1975 No. 52, 1975 - SECT 24

24. (1) A person aggrieved by an act that he considers to have been unlawful
by reason of a provision of Part II may subject to this section institute a
proceeding in relation to the act by way of civil action in a court of
competent jurisdiction for any one or more of the remedies specified in
section 25.

(2) A proceeding may not be instituted under this section in respect of the
doing of an act (other than an act that is unlawful by virtue of section 16)
in relation to-

   (a)  accommodation in a dwelling-house or flat, being accommodation shared
        or to be shared, in whole or in part, with the person who did the act
        or a person on whose behalf the act was done or with a relative of
        either of those persons; or

   (b)  employment, or an application for employment, in a dwelling-house or
        flat occupied by the person who did the act or a person on whose
        behalf the act was done or by a relative of either of those persons.

(3) No proceeding shall be instituted unless the person aggrieved has received
prior to the institution of such proceeding a certificate signed by the
Commission stating that-

   (a)  the Commissioner, a conciliation committee or an officer or employee
        of the Commissioner has presided over a conference directed by the
        Commissioner under section 22 (1) and has endeavoured to settle the
        matter; or

   (b)  by reason of the non-attendance of a person who has been given a
        direction under section 22, such a conference has not been able to be
        held, and that at the date of the certificate the matter has not been
        settled.