Discrimination
20 Discrimination
For the purposes of this Act, discrimination includes:
(a) any distinction, restriction, exclusion or preference made on the basis of an attribute that has the effect of nullifying or impairing equality of opportunity; and
harassment on the basis of an attribute,
in an area of activity referred to in Part 4.
(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), discrimination takes place if a person treats or proposes to treat another person who has or had, or is believed to have or had:
an attribute; or
a characteristic imputed to appertain to an attribute; or
(c) a characteristic imputed to appertain generally to persons with an attribute,
less favourably than a person who has not, or is believed not to have, such an attribute.
For discrimination to take place, it is not necessary that:
(a) the attribute is the sole or dominant ground for the less favourable treatment; or
(b) the person who discriminates regards the treatment as less favourable.
(4) The motive of a person alleged to have discriminated against another person is, for the purposes of this Act, irrelevant.
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