Part 4 Unlawful age discrimination
Division 3 Discrimination in other areas
Section 29
29 Accommodation
(1) It is unlawful for a person, whether as principal or agent, to
discriminate against another person on the ground of the other
person’s age:
(a) by refusing the other person’s application for
accommodation; or
(b) in the terms or conditions on which the accommodation is
offered to the other person; or
(c) by deferring the other person’s application for
accommodation or according to the other 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 the other
person’s age:
(a) by denying the other person access, or limiting the other
person’s access, to any benefit associated with
accommodation occupied by the other person; or
(b) by evicting the other person from accommodation occupied
by the other person; or
(c) by subjecting the other person to any other detriment in
relation to accommodation occupied by the other person.
Exemption for accommodation provider who is resident etc.
(3) This section does not apply 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 3 persons other than a person mentioned in
paragraph (a) or near relatives of such a person.
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Compilation No. 46
Age Discrimination Act 2004
Compilation date: 03/12/2021
Authorised Version C2021C00565 registered 10/12/2021
Registered: 10/12/2021