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487 PDFTitle:DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ORDINANCEGazette Number:
Section:16Heading:Trade unions, etc.Version Date:30/06/1997

(1) This section applies to an organization of workers, an organization of employers, or any other organization whose members carry on a particular profession or trade for the purposes of which the organization exists.
(2) It is unlawful for an organization to which this section applies, in the case of a person with a disability who is not a member of the organization, to discriminate against him-

        (a) in the terms on which it is prepared to admit him to membership; or
        (b) by refusing or deliberately omitting to accept his application for membership.
(3) It is unlawful for an organization to which this section applies, in the case of a person with a disability who is a member of the organization, to discriminate against him-
        (a) in the way it affords him access to any benefits, services or facilities, or by refusing or deliberately omitting to afford him access to them;
        (b) by depriving him of membership, or varying the terms on which he is a member; or
        (c) by subjecting him to any other detriment.
(Enacted 1995)