Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991 - SECT 7

    (1)     This Act applies to discrimination on the ground of any of the following attributes (a protected attribute ):

        (a)     accommodation status;

        (b)     age;

Examples—par (b)

because the person is a child or young person or an older person

        (c)     association (whether as a relative or otherwise) with a person who is identified by reference to another protected attribute;

        (d)     breastfeeding;

        (e)     disability;

        (f)     employment status;

        (g)     gender identity;

        (h)     genetic information;

              (i)     immigration status;

        (j)     industrial activity;

        (k)     irrelevant criminal record;

        (l)     parent, family, carer or kinship responsibilities;

        (m)     physical features;

        (n)     political conviction;

        (o)     pregnancy;

        (p)     profession, trade, occupation or calling;

        (q)     race;

        (r)     record of a person's sex having been altered under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1997

or a law of another jurisdiction that corresponds, or substantially, corresponds, to the Act

, section 26 (Alteration of register);

        (s)     relationship status;    

        (t)     religious conviction;

        (u)     sex;

              (v)     sex characteristics;

        (w)     sexuality;

              (x)     subjection to domestic or family violence.

    (2)     For this Act, "protected attribute" includes—

        (a)     a characteristic that people with the attribute generally have; and

        (b)     a characteristic that people with the attribute are generally presumed to have; and

        (c)     the attribute that a person has; and

        (d)     the attribute that a person has had in the past, whether or not the person still has the attribute; and

        (e)     the attribute that a person is thought to have, whether or not the person has the attribute; and

        (f)     the attribute that a person is thought to have had in the past, whether or not the person has had the attribute in the past.