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Sex Discrimination Act 1984
8AWorkplace environment that is hostile for 2 or more reasons
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#### 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.