Cap 602 s 27 Discrimination in provision of goods, facilities or services (Race Discrimination Ordinance)

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Chapter:	602	Title:	Race Discrimination Ordinance	Gazette Number:	L.N. 166 of 2009
Section:	27	Heading:	Discrimination in provision of goods, facilities or services	Version Date:	10/07/2009

Goods, facilities, services and premises

(1) It is unlawful for any person (“the first-mentioned person”) concerned with the provision (for payment or not) of goods, facilities or services to the public or a section of the public to discriminate against another person (“the second-mentioned person”) who seeks to obtain or use those goods, facilities or services—

(a) by refusing, or deliberately omitting to provide, the second-mentioned person with any of them; or

(b) by refusing or deliberately omitting to provide the second-mentioned person with goods, facilities or services of the like quality, in the like manner and on the like terms as are normal in the first-mentioned person’s case in relation to other members of the public or (where the second-mentioned person belongs to a section of the public) to other members of that section.

(2) The following are examples of the facilities and services referred to in subsection (1)—

(a) access to and use of any place which members of the public or a section of the public are permitted to enter;

(b) accommodation in a hotel, guesthouse or other similar establishment;

(d) facilities for education;

(e) facilities for entertainment, recreation or refreshment;

(f) facilities for transport or travel;

(g) the services of any profession or trade;

(h) the services of—

(i) any department of the Government; or

(ii) any undertaking by or of the Government.