(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise
indicates or requires--
"accommodation" includes residential or business accommodation.
"associate" of a person means--
(a) any person with whom the person
associates, whether socially or in business or commerce, or otherwise, and
(b) any person who is wholly or mainly dependent on, or a member of the
household of, the person.
"Board" means the Anti-Discrimination Board constituted under this Act.
"commission agent" means an agent who is remunerated by commission.
"contract worker" means an employee who, under a contract of employment
performs work for an employer who has undertaken to perform that work for
another person.
(a) total or partial loss of a person's bodily or mental
functions or of a part of a person's body, or
(b) the presence in a person's
body of organisms causing or capable of causing disease or illness, or
(c)
the malfunction, malformation or disfigurement of a part of a person's body,
or
(d) a disorder or malfunction that results in a person learning
differently from a person without the disorder or malfunction, or
(e) a
disorder, illness or disease that affects a person's thought processes,
perception of reality, emotions or judgment or that results in disturbed
behaviour.
"educational authority" means a person or body administering a school,
college, university or other institution at which education or training is
provided.
"employment" includes work under a contract for services.
"employment agency" means a person who, for profit or not, provides services
for the purpose of finding work or employment for others or for supplying
employers with workers or employees.
"functions" includes powers, authorities and duties.
"marital or domestic status" means the status or condition of being--
(a)
single, or
(b) married, or
(c) married but living separately and apart from
one's spouse, or
(d) divorced, or
(e) widowed, or
(f) in a de facto
relationship.
"near relative" , in relation to a person, means the spouse, de facto partner,
parent, child, grandparent, grandchild, brother or sister of the person.
"private educational authority" means a person or body administering a school,
college, university or other institution at which education or training is
provided, not being--
"race" includes colour, nationality, descent and ethnic, ethno-religious or
national origin.
"recognised transgender person" means a person the record of whose sex is
altered under Part 5A of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act
1995 or under the corresponding provisions of a law of another Australian
jurisdiction.
(f) services consisting of access to, and the
use of any facilities in, any place or vehicle that the public or a section of
the public is entitled or allowed to enter or use, for payment or not.
"Tribunal" means the Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
"vehicle" includes a ship, an aircraft and a hovercraft.
(2) A reference in this Act
to the exercise of a function includes, where that function is a duty, a
reference to the performance of that duty.
(3) For the purposes of this Act,
the fact that a race may comprise two or more distinct races does not prevent
it from being a race.
(4) A reference in this Act to the conferring, renewing
or extending of an authorisation or a qualification, in relation to an
authority or a body which is empowered to confer, renew or extend an
authorisation or a qualification that is needed for or facilitates the
practice of a profession, the carrying on of a trade or the engaging in of an
occupation, includes a reference to the conferring, renewing, extending,
granting, awarding, approving, issuing or accepting of a recognition,
registration, enrolment, approval or certification by such an authority or
such a body or to the admission of a person to membership of such an authority
or such a body.
(5) Notes included in this Act do not form part of this Act.
