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(1) A person must not do an act that:
(a) is reasonably likely, in all the circumstances, to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person or a group of people; and
(b) is done because of an attribute of the other person or of some or all of the people in the group.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to an act done in private.
(3) For subsection (2), an act is taken not to be done in private if it:
(a) causes words, sounds, images or writing to be communicated to the public; or
(b) is done in a public place; or
(c) is done in the sight or hearing of people who are in a public place.
(4) In this section:
"public place" includes any place to which the public have access as of right or by invitation, whether express or implied and whether or not a charge is made for admission to the place.
Section 20A does not prevent anything said or done reasonably and in good faith:
(a) in the performance, exhibition or distribution of an artistic work; or
(b) in the course of any statement, publication, discussion or debate made or held for any genuine academic, artistic or scientific purpose or any other genuine purpose in the public interest; or
(c) in making or publishing:
(i) a fair and accurate report of any event or matter of public interest; or
(ii) a fair comment on any event or matter of public interest, if the comment is an expression of a genuine belief held by the person making the comment.
(1) For this Act, a person discriminates on the ground of disability against a person if the person treats the person with the disability less favourably because the person has an assistance animal.
(2) Subsection (1) applies notwithstanding that it is the practice of the person to treat less favourably other persons who have animals, or animals of a particular kind.
(3) Nothing in this section limits the operation of section 20 in relation to discrimination on the ground of disability.
(4) This section does not affect the liability of a person with an assistance animal for any damage caused by the assistance animal.
(5) Nothing in this Act makes it unlawful for a person to:
(a) request a person with an assistance animal to produce evidence that the animal is an assistance animal; and
(b) if the person with an assistance animal does not produce evidence that the animal is an assistance animal – discriminate against the person on the ground that the person has the animal.