Hong Kong Ordinances

SEX DISCRIMINATION ORDINANCE - SECT 26

Exceptions for single-sex establishments

(1) Section 25(a) and (b) shall not apply to the admission of
students to any educational establishment ("single-sex establishment") which
admits students of one sex only, or which would be taken to admit students of
one sex only if there were disregarded students of the opposite sex-

   (a)  whose admission is exceptional; or

   (b)  whose numbers are comparatively small and whose admission is confined
        to particular courses of instruction or teaching classes.

(2) Where an educational establishment which is not a single-sex 
establishment has some students as boarders and others as non-boarders, and
admits as boarders students of one sex only (or would be taken to admit as
boarders students of one sex only if there were disregarded boarders of the
opposite sex whose numbers are comparatively small), section 25(a) and (b)
shall not apply to the admission of boarders and section 25(c)(i) shall not
apply to boarding facilities.

(3) Where an educational establishment is a single-sex  establishment by
reason of its inclusion in subsection (1)(b), the fact that students of one
sex are confined to particular courses of instruction or teaching classes
shall not be taken to contravene section 25(c)(i). (Enacted 1995)