Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 No 48
Historical version for 22 September 2008 to 9 December 2008 (accessed 25 May 2013 at 06:06)
Current version
38N Accommodation
(1) It is unlawful for a person, whether as principal or agent, to
discriminate against another person on transgender grounds:(a) by refusing the person’s application for accommodation,
or
(b) in the terms on which he or she offers the person accommodation,
or
(c) by deferring the person’s application for accommodation or
giving the person a lower order of precedence in any list of applicants for
that accommodation.
(2) It is unlawful for a person, whether as principal or agent, to
discriminate against another person on transgender grounds:(a) by denying the person access, or limiting the person’s
access, to any benefit associated with accommodation occupied by the person,
or
(b) by evicting the person or subjecting the person to any other
detriment.
(3) Nothing in this section applies to or in respect of the provision
of accommodation in premises if:(a) the person who provides or proposes to provide the accommodation
or a near relative of that person resides, and intends to continue to reside,
in those premises, and
(b) the accommodation provided in those premises is for no more than 6
persons.