Religious bodies
37 Religious bodies
Nothing in Division 1 or 2 affects:
the ordination or appointment of priests, ministers of religion or members of any religious order;
the training or education of persons seeking ordination or appointment as priests, ministers of religion or members of a religious order;
the selection or appointment of persons to perform duties or functions for the purposes of or in connection with, or otherwise to participate in, any religious observance or practice; or
any other act or practice of a body established for religious purposes, being an act or practice that conforms to the doctrines, tenets or beliefs of that religion or is necessary to avoid injury to the religious susceptibilities of adherents of that religion.
Paragraph (1)(d) does not apply to an act or practice of a body established for religious purposes if:
the act or practice is connected with the provision, by the body, of Commonwealth‑funded aged care; and
the act or practice is not connected with the employment of persons to provide that aged care.
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