Hong Kong Ordinances

SEX DISCRIMINATION ORDINANCE - SECT 27

Exceptions for single-sex establishments turning co-educational

(1) Where at any time-

   (a)  the responsible body for an educational establishment which is a
        single-sex establishment determines to alter its admissions
        arrangements so that the establishment will cease to be a
        single-sex establishment; or

   (b)  section 26(2) applies to the admission of boarders to an
        educational establishment but the responsible body for the
        establishment determines to alter its admissions arrangements so that
        that section will cease so to apply, then the responsible body may, by
        notice served on the Commission, specify the date on which that
        determination is to take effect.

(2) Where the responsible body for an educational establishment has served a
notice referred to in subsection (1), then if the responsible  body, at any
time during the period of 3 years beginning on the date specified in that
notice as the date on which the determination concerned referred to in that
subsection is to take effect (or such longer period not exceeding 3 years as
the Commission may allow in any particular case), refuses or deliberately
omits to accept an application for the admission of a person to the
establishment as a student, that refusal or omission, as the case may be,
shall not be taken to contravene any provision of this Ordinance.

(3) This section shall not operate to afford any exemption from liability
under this Ordinance except as provided for in subsection (2). (Enacted 1995)