Statutory Rules 1984 No. 1811

Sex Discrimination Regulations

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984.

Dated 2 August 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Attorney-General

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Sex Discrimination Regulations.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Sex Discrimination Act 1984.

Combat duties and combat-related duties

3. (1) The following duties (in this regulation referred to as “combat duties”) are declared to be combat duties for the purposes of section 43 of the Act, namely, duties requiring a person to commit, or to participate directly in the commission of, an act of violence against an adversary in time of war.

(2) The following duties are declared to be combat-related duties for the purposes of section 43 of the Act, namely, duties (other than combat duties) requiring a person to work in support of, and in close proximity to, a person performing combat duties, being work performed in circumstances in which the person performing the work may be killed or injured by an act of violence committed by an adversary.

(3) In this regulation, “time of war” has the same meaning as in the Defence Act 1903.

S.R. 205/84 Cat. No. —Recommended retail price 20c 12/25.7.1984

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 3 August 1984.

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