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Second Session, 47th General Assembly

62 Elizabeth II, 2013

BILL 25

AN ACT TO AMEND THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT, 2010

Received and Read the First Time...................................................................................................

Second Reading.................................................................................................................................

Committee............................................................................................................................................

Third Reading.....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE DARIN KING

Minister of Justice

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Human Rights Act, 2010 to add gender identity and gender expression as prohibited grounds of discrimination.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT, 2010

Analysis


        1.   Preamble Amdt.

        2.   S.9 Amdt.
Prohibited grounds of discrimination


Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2010 cH-13.1

        1. The preamble to the Human Rights Act, 2010 is amended by adding immediately after the words and comma "sexual orientation," the words and commas "gender identity, gender expression,"

 

        2. Subsection 9(1) of the Act is amended by adding immediately after the words and comma "sexual orientation," the words and commas "gender identity, gender expression,".