7Protected attributes

7 Protected attributes (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; Part 2 Discrimination to which Act applies (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. Discrimination to which Act applies Part 2