Version as at 1 July 2024 Human Rights Act 1993 Part 2 s 22 Section 21(1)(i)(i): amended, on 21 April 2005, by section 9(1) of the New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 42). Section 21(1)(i)(i): amended, on 12 October 2001, by section 77 of the New Zealand Superannuation Act 2001 (2001 No 84). Section 21(1)(k)(ii): substituted, on 1 July 1999, by section 415(1) of the Accident Insurance Act 1998 (1998 No 114). Section 21(1)(k)(ii): amended, on 26 November 2018, by section 459 of the Social Security Act 2018 (2018 No 32). Section 21(1)(k)(ii): amended, on 3 March 2010, pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Accident Com‐ pensation Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 1). Section 21(1)(l)(iii): amended, on 26 April 2005, by section 7 of the Relationships (Statutory Refer‐ ences) Act 2005 (2005 No 3). Discrimination in employment matters 22 Employment (1) Where an applicant for employment or an employee is qualified for work of any description, it shall be unlawful for an employer, or any person acting or purporting to act on behalf of an employer,— (a) to refuse or omit to employ the applicant on work of that description which is available; or (b) to offer or afford the applicant or the employee less favourable terms of employment, conditions of work, superannuation or other fringe benefits, and opportunities for training, promotion, and transfer than are made available to applicants or employees of the same or substan‐ tially similar capabilities employed in the same or substantially similar circumstances on work of that description; or (c) to terminate the employment of the employee, or subject the employee to any detriment, in circumstances in which the employment of other employees employed on work of that description would not be termin‐ ated, or in which other employees employed on work of that description would not be subjected to such detriment; or (d) to retire the employee, or to require or cause the employee to retire or resign,— by reason of any of the prohibited grounds of discrimination. (2) It shall be unlawful for any person concerned with procuring employment for other persons or procuring employees for any employer to treat any person seeking employment differently from other persons in the same or substantially similar circumstances by reason of any of the prohibited grounds of discrimin‐ ation. Compare: 1977 No 49 s 15(1), (2); 1992 No 16 s 3 33