EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACT 1984 - SECT 6
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACT 1984 - SECT 6
(1) For the purposes
of this Act, the holder of a public or statutory office will, in carrying out
official duties, be taken to be acting in the course of employment.
(2) For the purposes
of this Act, a person acts on a particular ground referred to in this Act if
the person in fact acts on a number of grounds, one of which is the ground so
referred to, and that ground is a substantial reason for the act.
(3) For the purposes
of this Act, a person (the
"discriminator") treats another unfavourably on the basis of a particular
attribute or circumstance if the discriminator treats that other person less
favourably than in identical or similar circumstances the discriminator
treats, or would treat, a person who does not have that attribute or is not
affected by that circumstance.
(4) For the purposes
of this Act, an act will be regarded as a discriminatory act despite the fact
that the person alleged to have committed the act did so on the basis of a
mistaken assumption (for example, a mistaken assumption that another person
was of a particular sexual orientation or gender identity or a particular
race).