Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (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
subsection (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.