Section 53 — Disability Discrimination Act 1992: Combat duties and peacekeeping services

(1) This Part does not render it unlawful for a person to discriminate against another person on the ground of the other person’s disability in connection with employment, engagement or appointment in the Defence Force: (a) in a position involving the performance of combat duties, combat-related duties or peacekeeping service; or (b) in prescribed circumstances in relation to combat duties, combat-related duties or peacekeeping service; or (c) in a position involving the performance of duties as a chaplain or a medical support person in support of forces engaged or likely to be engaged in combat duties, combat-related duties or peacekeeping service. (2) In this section: combat duties means such duties as are declared by the regulations to be combat duties for the purposes of this section. combat-related duties means such duties as are declared by the regulations to be combat-related duties for the purposes of this section. medical support person means: (a) a person exclusively engaged in the search for, or the collection, transport or treatment of, the wounded or sick, or in the prevention of disease; or (b) a person exclusively engaged in the administration of medical units and establishments. peacekeeping service has the same meaning as in the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.