Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ACT 1975 - SECT 12

  (1)   It is unlawful for a person, whether as a principal or agent:

  (a)   to refuse or fail to dispose of any estate or interest in land, or any residential or business accommodation, to a second person;

  (b)   to dispose of such an estate or interest or such accommodation to a second person on less favourable terms and conditions than those which are or would otherwise be offered;

  (c)   to treat a second person who is seeking to acquire or has acquired such an estate or interest or such accommodation less favourably than other persons in the same circumstances;

  (d)   to refuse to permit a second person to occupy any land or any residential or business accommodation; or

  (e)   to terminate any estate or interest in land of a second person or the right of a second person to occupy any land or any residential or business accommodation;

by reason of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of that second person or of any relative or associate of that second person.

  (2)   It is unlawful for a person, whether as a principal or agent, to impose or seek to impose on another person any term or condition that limits, by reference to race, colour or national or ethnic origin, the persons or class of persons who may be the licensees or invitees of the occupier of any land or residential or business accommodation.

  (3)   Nothing in this section renders unlawful an act in relation to accommodation in a dwelling - house or flat, being accommodation shared or to be shared, in whole or in part, with the person who did the act or a person on whose behalf the act was done or with a relative of either of those persons.