Anti-Discrimination Act 1977
49MProvision of goods and services
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49M Provision of goods and services
49M Provision of goods and services
(1) It is unlawful for a person who provides, for payment or not, goods or services to discriminate against a person on the ground of disability—
(a) by refusing to provide the person with those goods or services, or
(b) in the terms on which he or she provides the person with those goods or services.
(2) Nothing in this section renders it unlawful to discriminate against a person on the ground of the person’s disability if the provision of the goods or services would impose unjustifiable hardship on the person who provides the goods or services.
s 49M: Ins 1981 No 15, Sch 1 (3). Am 1982 No 142, Sch 1 (3). Subst 1994 No 28, Sch 3 (2).