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New South Wales
Anti-Discrimination Amendment (Drug
Addiction) Bill 2001
Contents
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1 Name of Act 2
2 Commencement 2
3 Amendment of Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 No 48 2
Schedule 1 Amendment 3
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New South Wales
Anti-Discrimination Amendment (Drug
Addiction) Bill 2001
No , 2001
A Bill for
An Act to amend the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 with respect to its application
to persons addicted to prohibited drugs.
Clause 1 Anti-Discrimination Amendment (Drug Addiction) Bill 2001
The Legislature of New South Wales enacts: 1
1 Name of Act 2
This Act is the Anti-Discrimination Amendment (Drug Addiction) 3
Act 2001. 4
2 Commencement 5
This Act commences on the date of assent. 6
3 Amendment of Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 No 48 7
The Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 is amended as set out in Schedule 1. 8
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Anti-Discrimination Amendment (Drug Addiction) Bill 2001
Amendment Schedule 1
Schedule 1 Amendment 1
(Section 3) 2
Section 49PA 3
Insert after section 49P: 4
49PA Persons addicted to prohibited drugs 5
(1) This section applies to the provisions of Division 2 6
(Discrimination in work), other than sections 49H, 49I and 49J. 7
(2) Nothing in those provisions renders unlawful discrimination 8
against a person on the ground of disability if: 9
(a) the disability relates to the person's addiction to a 10
prohibited drug, and 11
(b) the person is actually addicted to a prohibited drug at 12
the time of the discrimination. 13
(3) In this section: 14
prohibited drug means a prohibited drug within the meaning 15
of the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985, but does not 16
include: 17
(a) methadone or buprenorphine, or 18
(b) any other drug that is declared by the regulations not to 19
be a prohibited drug for the purposes of this section. 20
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