Special Entities and Prohibited Acts

Professions where employment is primarily offered through a professional partnership or partnership firm may not take into account a person's sex, gender, marital status or state of pregnancy when determining who should be offered a position as a partner, or the terms and access to benefits which they offer that person. Furthermore, no one may be expelled from the firm or partnership or subjected to other detriment for such reasons.

Qualifying bodies that authorise and qualify professionals and tradespersons may not discriminate against anyone on the grounds of sex, gender, marital status or state of pregnancy by refusing or failing to confer, renew or extend the authorisation or qualification.

A person or authority that provides technical or vocational training may not refuse to train persons on the grounds of sex, gender, marital status or pregnancy. Nor may training be terminated for these reasons or persons restricted in their ability to access training courses, other facilities or services, such as vocational counselling or guidance.

Employment agencies may not refuse to provide a person with services on the grounds of sex, gender, marital status or pregnancy. They also cannot restrict the terms, manner or any means by which it facilitates the employment of such a person.

Persons who make available goods, services or facilities - whether for payment or not - may not refuse to provide these to persons on the grounds of sex, gender, marital status or pregnancy. Nor may they discriminate with regards to the terms and conditions on which these are made available.

No person may discriminate against anyone on the grounds of sex, gender, marital status or pregnancy by publishing or displaying any advertisement or notice.

A person cannot request or require that someone provide information by completing an application form or in any other way if that information would not be requested or required of a person of the opposite sex or of a different marital status or pregnant state in the same circumstances.