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487 PDFTitle:DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ORDINANCEGazette Number:
Section:49Heading:Aiding unlawful actsVersion Date:30/06/1997

(1) A person who knowingly aids another person to do an act made unlawful by this Ordinance shall be treated for the purposes of this Ordinance as himself doing an unlawful act of the like description.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), an employee or agent for whose act the employer or principal is liable under section 48 (or would be so liable but for section 48(3)) shall be deemed to aid the doing of the act by the employer or principal.
(3) A person does not under this section knowingly aid another to do an unlawful act if-

        (a) he acts in reliance on a statement made to him by that other person that, by reason of any provision of this Ordinance, the act which he aids would not be unlawful; and
        (b) it is reasonable for him to rely on the statement.
(4) A person who knowingly or recklessly makes a statement of the kind referred to in subsection (3)(a) which in a material respect is false or misleading commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 4.
(Enacted 1995)