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SEX DISCRIMINATION ACT 1984 - SECT 8A

Workplace environment that is hostile for 2 or more reasons

    For the purposes of this Act, a workplace environment may be offensive, intimidating or humiliating to a person by reason of:

  (a)   the sex of the person; or

  (b)   a characteristic that appertains generally to persons of the sex of the person; or

  (c)   a characteristic that is generally imputed to persons of the sex of the person;

if it is offensive, intimidating or humiliating by reason of 2 or more matters that include the sex or the characteristic, whether or not the sex or the characteristic is the dominant or substantial reason.

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