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DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT 1992 - SECT 22

Education

  (1)   It is unlawful for an educational authority to discriminate against a person on the ground of the person's disability:

  (a)   by refusing or failing to accept the person's application for admission as a student; or

  (b)   in the terms or conditions on which it is prepared to admit the person as a student.

  (2)   It is unlawful for an educational authority to discriminate against a student on the ground of the student's disability:

  (a)   by denying the student access, or limiting the student's access, to any benefit provided by the educational authority; or

  (b)   by expelling the student; or

  (c)   by subjecting the student to any other detriment.

  (2A)   It is unlawful for an education provider to discriminate against a person on the ground of the person's disability:

  (a)   by developing curricula or training courses having a content that will either exclude the person from participation, or subject the person to any other detriment; or

  (b)   by accrediting curricula or training courses having such a content.

  (3)   This section does not render it unlawful to discriminate against a person on the ground of the person's disability in respect of admission to an educational institution established wholly or primarily for students who have a particular disability where the person does not have that particular disability.



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