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487 PDFTitle:DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ORDINANCEGazette Number:
Section:10Heading:Discrimination (interpreters, readers and assistants)Version Date:30/06/1997

For the purposes of this Ordinance, a discriminator discriminates against another person on the ground of that other person's disability if the discriminator treats that other person less favourably because of-

        (a) the fact that other person is accompanied by-
          (i) an interpreter;
          (ii) a reader;
          (iii) an assistant; or
          (iv) a carer,
          who provides interpretive, reading or other services to that other person because of the disability; or
        (b) any matter related to that fact, whether or not it is the discriminator's practice to treat less favourably any person who is accompanied by such-
          (i) an interpreter;
          (ii) a reader;
          (iii) an assistant; or
          (iv) a carer.
(Enacted 1995)