Equal Opportunity Act 1984

¹ Footnote no longer required.

² Repealed by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1986 s. 4 (Cwlth) (No. 126 of 1986). Now see the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986 (Cwlth).

³ The Uniform Building By‑laws 1974 were repealed by Gazette 28 July 1989 p. 2280.

⁴ Repealed by the Financial Institutions (Western Australia) Act 1992 s. 22(1) which was repealed by the Acts Amendment and Repeal (Financial Sector Reform) Act 1999 s. 5.

⁵ The Friendly Societies (Western Australia) Act 1999, to which the Friendly Societies (Western Australia) Code was an Appendix, was repealed by the Acts Amendment and Repeal (Financial Sector Reform) Act 1999 s. 5(d).

⁶ The Industrial Relations Act 1988 (Cwlth) was renamed the Workplace Relations Act 1996 by the Workplace and Other Legislation Amendment Act 1996 Sch. 19 (Cwlth). The Workplace Relations Act 1996 was then repealed by the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 (Cwlth).

⁷ The Western Australian Government Railways Commission no longer exists. Its successor is the Public Transport Authority. See the Public Transport Authority Act 2003 s. 80.

⁸ Under the Public Sector Management Act 1994 s. 112(1), a reference to the Public Service Act 1978 is to be read as a reference to the Public Sector Management Act 1994. The reference was changed under the Reprints Acts 1984 s. 7(3)(g).

⁹ Now known as the Police Service.

¹⁰ The Acts Amendment (Financial Administration and Audit) Act 1985 s. 4 is a savings and transitional provision of no further effect.

¹¹ The Equal Opportunity Amendment Act 1988 s. 33 is a transitional provision of no further effect.

¹² The Equal Opportunity Amendment Act 1992 s. 36(2) is a saving provision of no further effect.

¹³ The Equal Opportunity Amendment Act 1992 s. 9(2) and (3) read as follows:

¹⁴ The Acts Amendment (Lesbian and Gay Law Reform) Act 2002 s. 51(3) is a savings provision of no further effect.

¹⁵ The State Administrative Tribunal (Conferral of Jurisdiction) Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Pt. 5, the State Administrative Tribunal Act 2004 s. 167 and 169, and the State Administrative Tribunal Regulations 2004 r. 28 and 42 deal with certain transitional issues some of which may be relevant for this Act.

¹⁶ The State Administrative Tribunal Regulations 2004 r. 48 reads as follows:

48. Equal Opportunity Act 1984

Unless the context otherwise requires, where in an arrangement made under the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 section 7 there is a reference to the Equal Opportunity Tribunal that reference is to be read and construed as a reference to the State Administrative Tribunal.

¹⁷ The Machinery of Government (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2006 section 454 provides general transitional provisions concerning references to chief executive officers that are amended or repealed by that Act.

¹⁸ The amendments in the Co-operatives Act 2009 s. 509(2) and 514(2) are not included because the section to be amended (s. 35N(1)) had expired on 9 Jan 1995 under  s. 35N(2). Section 35N(2) reads as follows: