Equal Opportunity Act 1995 - SECT 85 What is sexual harassment?
This legislation has been repealed.
Equal Opportunity Act 1995 - SECT 85
What is sexual harassment?85. What is sexual harassment? (1) For the purpose of this Act, a person sexually harasses another person if he or she- (a) makes an unwelcome sexual advance, or an unwelcome request for sexual favours, to the other person; or (b) engages in any other unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature in relation to the other person- in circumstances in which a reasonable person, having regard to all the circumstances, would have anticipated that the other person would be offended, humiliated or intimidated. (2) In subsection (1) conduct of a sexual nature includes- (a) subjecting a person to any act of physical intimacy; (b) making, orally or in writing, any remark or statement with sexual connotations to a person or about a person in his or her presence; (c) making any gesture, action or comment of a sexual nature in a person's presence.