Western Australian Consolidated Acts

SPENT CONVICTIONS ACT 1988 - SECT 29

29 .         Application of certain provisions of Equal Opportunity Act 1984

                Without limiting section 24, for the purposes of this Act — 

            (a)         the Minister has the powers conferred by sections 81 and 107(1) of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 on the Minister to whom the administration of that Act is committed; and

            (b)         the Commissioner under that Act has the functions set out in section 80(a), (b)(i), (c), (e) and (h), section 81 and section 95 of that Act,

                in relation to discrimination on the ground of a spent conviction or the charge to which it relates, as provided in Division 3 of Part 3, as if such discrimination were a form of discrimination to which that Act applies; and

            (c)         sections 155, 159, 160, 161, 162 and 163 of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 apply as if they were set out in this Act.