Accommodation
35AM Accommodation
It is unlawful for a person, whether as principal or agent, to discriminate against a gender reassigned person on gender history grounds —
by refusing the gender reassigned person’s application for accommodation; or
in the terms or conditions on which accommodation is offered to the gender reassigned person; or
by deferring the gender reassigned person’s application for accommodation, or according to the gender reassigned person a lower order of precedence in any list of applicants for that accommodation.
It is unlawful for a person, whether as principal or agent, to discriminate against a gender reassigned person on gender history grounds —
by denying the gender reassigned person access, or limiting the gender reassigned person’s access, to any benefit associated with accommodation occupied by the gender reassigned person; or
by evicting the gender reassigned person from accommodation occupied by the gender reassigned person; or
by subjecting the gender reassigned person to any other detriment in relation to accommodation occupied by the gender reassigned person.
Nothing in this section applies to or in respect of —
the provision of accommodation in premises if —
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
the accommodation provided in those premises is for no more than 3 persons other than a person referred to in paragraph (a) or near relatives of such a person;
or
accommodation provided by a religious body.
[Section 35AM inserted: No. 2 of 2000 s. 28.]
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