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SEX DISCRIMINATION ACT 1984 No. 4, 1984 - SECT 29 Sexual harassment in education

SEX DISCRIMINATION ACT 1984 No. 4, 1984 - SECT 29

Sexual harassment in education

29. (1) It is unlawful for a person who is a member of the staff of an
educational institution to harass sexually a person who is a student at that
educational institution or is seeking admission to that educational
institution as a student.

(2) A person shall, for the purposes of this section, be taken to harass
sexually another person if the first-mentioned person makes an unwelcome
sexual advance, or an unwelcome request for sexual favours, to the other
person, or engages in other unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature in relation
to the other person, and-

   (a)  the other person has reasonable grounds for believing that a rejection
        of the advance, a refusal of the request or the taking of objection to
        the conduct would disadvantage the other person in any way in
        connection with the other person's studies or the other person's
        application for admission to an educational institution as a student;
        or

   (b)  as a result of the other person's rejection of the advance, refusal of
        the request or taking of objection to the conduct, the other person is
        disadvantaged in any way in connection with the other person's studies
        or the other person's application for admission to an
        educational institution as a student.

(3) A reference in sub-section (2) to conduct of a sexual nature in relation
to a person includes a reference to the making, to, or in the presence of, a
person, of a statement of a sexual nature concerning that person, whether the
statement is made orally or in writing.