Hong Kong Ordinances

SEX DISCRIMINATION ORDINANCE - SECT 53

Discriminatory training by certain bodies

(1) Nothing in Part III, IV or V shall render unlawful any act done in
relation to particular work by any person in, or in connection with-

   (a)  affording women only, or men only, access to facilities for training
        which would help to fit them for that work; or

   (b)  encouraging women only, or men only, to take advantage of
        opportunities for doing that work, where it reasonably appears to that
        person that at any time within the 12 months immediately preceding the
        doing of the act there were no persons of the sex concerned doing that
        work in Hong Kong, or the number of persons of that sex doing the work
        in Hong Kong was comparatively small.

(2) Nothing in Part III, IV or V shall render unlawful any act done by any
person in, or in connection with, affording persons access to facilities for
training which would help to fit them for employment, where it reasonably
appears to that person that those persons are in special need of training by
reason of the period for which they have been discharging domestic or family
responsibilities to the exclusion of regular full time employment.

(3) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that the discrimination
in relation to which subsection (2) applies may result from confining the
training to persons who have been discharging domestic or family
responsibilities, or from the way persons are selected for training, or both.

(4) This section shall not apply in relation to any discrimination which is
rendered unlawful by section 11. (Enacted 1995)