Part 2 s 63
Human Rights Act 1993
Version as at
1 July 2024
person affected by family violence means a person who is 1 or both of the
following:
(5)
(a)
a person against whom any other person is inflicting, or has inflicted,
family violence:
(b)
a person with whom there ordinarily or periodically resides a child
against whom any other person is inflicting, or has inflicted, family
violence.
Subsection (1) applies regardless of how long ago the family violence occurred
or is suspected or assumed or believed to have occurred, and even if the family
violence occurred or is suspected or assumed or believed to have occurred
before the person became an employee.
Section 62A: inserted, on 1 April 2019, by section 39 of the Domestic Violence—Victims’ Protection
Act 2018 (2018 No 21).
Section 62A heading: amended, on 1 July 2019, by section 259(1) of the Family Violence Act 2018
(2018 No 46).
Section 62A(1): amended, on 1 July 2019, by section 259(1) of the Family Violence Act 2018 (2018
No 46).
Section 62A(4): replaced, on 1 July 2019, by section 259(1) of the Family Violence Act 2018 (2018
No 46).
Section 62A(5): amended, on 1 July 2019, by section 259(1) of the Family Violence Act 2018 (2018
No 46).
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Racial harassment
(1)
It shall be unlawful for any person to use language (whether written or spoken),
or visual material, or physical behaviour that—
(2)
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(a)
expresses hostility against, or brings into contempt or ridicule, any other
person on the ground of the colour, race, or ethnic or national origins of
that person; and
(b)
is hurtful or offensive to that other person (whether or not that is con‐
veyed to the first-mentioned person); and
(c)
is either repeated, or of such a significant nature, that it has a detrimental
effect on that other person in respect of any of the areas to which this
subsection is applied by subsection (2).
The areas to which subsection (1) applies are—
(a)
the making of an application for employment:
(b)
employment, which term includes unpaid work:
(c)
participation in, or the making of an application for participation in, a
partnership:
(d)
membership, or the making of an application for membership, of an
industrial union or professional or trade association:
(e)
access to any approval, authorisation, or qualification: