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DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT 1992 - SECT 48

Infectious diseases

    This Part does not render it unlawful for a person to discriminate against another person on the ground of the other person's disability if:

  (a)   the person's disability is an infectious disease; and

  (b)   the discrimination is reasonably necessary to protect public health.

Note:   For discrimination in relation to an assistance animal that has an infectious disease, see subsection   54A(4).


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