Australia
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The Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission on Disability Rights addresses directly the rights of persons with a visual, hearing or other disability who have trained Assistance Dogs. The objects of this Act are:
(a) to eliminate, as far as possible, discrimination against persons on the ground of disability in the areas of:
(i) work, accommodation, education, access to premises, clubs and sport; and
(ii) the provision of goods, facilities, services and land; and
(iii) existing laws; and
(iv) the administration of Commonwealth laws and programs; and
(b) to ensure, as far as practicable, that persons with disabilities have the same rights to equality before the law as the rest of the community; and
(c) to promote recognition and acceptance within the community of the principle that persons
with disabilities have the same fundamental rights as the rest of the community.
Applies to |
Guide, Hearing, and Service Dogs |
Accessibility |
“It is unlawful for a person to discriminate against another person on the ground of the other person's disability . . . by refusing to allow the other person access to, or the use of, any premises that the public or a section of the public is entitled or allowed to enter or use (whether for payment or not); or . . . by requiring the other person to leave such premises or cease to use such
facilities.”
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Goods, Services, and Facilities |
“It is unlawful for a person who, whether for payment or not, provides goods
or services, or makes facilities available, to discriminate against another
person on the ground of the other person's disability or a disability of any of
that other person's associates . . . by refusing to provide the other person with
those goods or services or to make those facilities available to the other
person.”
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Discrimination |
It is illegal to discriminate against a disabled person because of “ . . . a dog
trained to assist the aggrieved person in activities where hearing is required,
or because of any matter related to that fact; or . . . any other animal trained
to assist the aggrieved person to alleviate the effect of the disability.”
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Penalties |
“Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code (except Part 2.5) applies to all offences
against this Act.”
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