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Anti-discrimination Act 1992
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21 Discrimination by refusing to allow assistance animal
(1) For this Act, a person discriminates on the ground of disability
against a person if the person treats the person with the disability
less favourably because the person has an assistance animal.
(2) Subsection (1) applies notwithstanding that it is the practice of the
person to treat less favourably other persons who have animals, or
animals of a particular kind.
(3) Nothing in this section limits the operation of section 20 in relation
to discrimination on the ground of disability.
(4) This section does not affect the liability of a person with an
assistance animal for any damage caused by the assistance
animal.
(5) Nothing in this Act makes it unlawful for a person to:
(a) request a person with an assistance animal to produce
evidence that the animal is an assistance animal; and
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(b) if the person with an assistance animal does not produce
evidence that the animal is an assistance animal –
discriminate against the person on the ground that the person
has the animal.