Hong Kong Ordinances

SEX DISCRIMINATION ORDINANCE - SECT 54

Other discriminatory training, etc.

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

   (a)  affording his female employees only, or his male employees 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 at any time within the 12
        months immediately preceding the doing of the act there were no
        persons of the sex concerned among those doing that work or the number
        of persons of that sex doing the work was comparatively small.

(2) Nothing in section 16 shall render unlawful any act done by an
organization to which that section applies in, or in connection with-

   (a)  affording female members of the organization only, or male members of
        the organization only, access to facilities for training which would
        help to fit them for holding a post of any kind in the organization;
        or

   (b)  encouraging female members only, or male members only, to take
        advantage of opportunities for holding such posts in the organization,
        where at any time within the 12 months immediately preceding the doing
        of the act there were no persons of the sex concerned among persons
        holding such posts in the organization or the number of persons of
        that sex holding such posts was comparatively small.

(3) Nothing in Part III, IV or V shall render unlawful any act done by an
organization to which section 16 applies in, or in connection with,
encouraging women only, or men only, to become members of the organization
where at any time within the 12 months immediately preceding the doing of the
act there were no persons of the sex concerned among those members or the
number of persons of that sex among the members was comparatively small.
(Enacted 1995)