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StatuteRacial Discrimination Act 1975

Section 5 — Racial Discrimination Act 1975: Additional operation of Act

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Without prejudice to its effect apart from this section, this Act also has, by force of this section, the effect it would have if: (a) there were added at the end of sections 11 and 13 the words “or by reason that that other person or any relative or associate of that other person is or has been an immigrant”; (b) there were added at the end of subsections 12(1) and 15(1) the words “or by reason that that second person or any relative or associate of that second person is or has been an immigrant”; (c) there were inserted in subsection 14(1), before the words “is invalid, the words or by reason that that person is or has been an immigrant”; (d) there were added at the end of subsection 14(2) the words “or by reason that that other person is or has been an immigrant”; (e) there were added at the end of subsection 15(2) the words “or by reason that the person so seeking employment or any relative or associate of that person is or has been an immigrant”; and (f) there were inserted in section 18, after the word “person”, the words “or by reason that a person is or has been an immigrant”.

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