Part 2 s 52
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Human Rights Act 1993
Version as at
1 July 2024
Exception in relation to disability
It shall not be a breach of section 44 for a person who supplies facilities or
services—
(a)
(b)
to refuse to provide those facilities or services to any person if—
(i)
that person’s disability requires those facilities or services to be
provided in a special manner; and
(ii)
the person who supplies the facilities or services cannot reason‐
ably be expected to provide them in that special manner; or
to provide those facilities or services to any person on terms that are
more onerous than those on which they are made available to other
persons, if—
(i)
that person’s disability requires those facilities or services to be
provided in a special manner; and
(ii)
the person who supplies the facilities or services cannot reason‐
ably be expected to provide them without requiring more onerous
terms.
Compare: Equal Opportunity Act 1984 s 29(2) (Vic)
Discrimination in provision of land, housing, and other accommodation
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Land, housing, and other accommodation
(1)
It shall be unlawful for any person, on his or her own behalf or on behalf or
purported behalf of any principal,—
(a)
to refuse or fail to dispose of any estate or interest in land or any
residential or business accommodation to any other person; or
(b)
to dispose of such an estate or interest or such accommodation to any
person on less favourable terms and conditions than are or would be
offered to other persons; or
(c)
to treat any person who is seeking to acquire or has acquired such an
estate or interest or such accommodation differently from other persons
in the same circumstances; or
(d)
to deny any person, directly or indirectly, the right to occupy any land or
any residential or business accommodation; or
(e)
to terminate any estate or interest in land or the right of any person to
occupy any land or any residential or business accommodation,—
by reason of any of the prohibited grounds of discrimination.
(2)
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It shall be unlawful for any person, on his or her own behalf or on behalf or
purported behalf of any principal, to impose or seek to impose on any other
person any term or condition which limits, by reference to any of the prohibited
grounds of discrimination, the persons or class of persons who may be the