Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 No 48
Current version for 28 February 2013 to date (accessed 24 May 2013 at 07:03)
49ZQ Accommodation
(1) It is unlawful for a person, whether as principal or agent, to
discriminate against another person on the ground of homosexuality:(a) by refusing the person’s application for
accommodation,
(b) in the terms on which he or she offers the person accommodation,
or
(c) by deferring the person’s application for accommodation or
according 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 the ground of homosexuality:(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,
on those premises, and
(b) the accommodation provided in those premises is for no more than 6
persons.