Hong Kong Ordinances

DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ORDINANCE - SECT 28

Discrimination in disposal or management of premises

(1) It is unlawful for a person ("the disposer"), in relation to premises in
Hong Kong of which he has power to dispose, to discriminate against another
person with a disability or any other person providing, or intending to
provide, services or facilities on those premises (and who for this purpose is
to be treated as an associate of that other person with a disability) to
persons with a disability-

   (a)  in the terms on which the disposer offers him those premises;

   (b)  by refusing his application for those premises; or

   (c)  in his treatment of him in relation to any list of persons in need of
        premises of that description.

(2) It is unlawful for a person ("the manager"), in relation to premises
managed by him, to discriminate against another person with a disability
occupying the premises-

   (a)  in the way the manager affords him access to any benefits or
        facilities, or by refusing or deliberately omitting to afford him
        access to them; or

   (b)  by evicting him, or subjecting him to any other detriment.

(3) Subsection (1) shall not apply to a person who owns an estate or interest
in the premises and wholly occupies them unless he uses the services of an
estate agent for the purposes of the disposal of the premises, or publishes or
causes to be published an advertisement in connection with the disposal.

(4) Subsection (2) shall not apply to a person who discriminates against
another person with a disability if the affording of access to any benefits or
facilities would impose unjustifiable hardship on the person affording such
access.

(5) In this section in relation to premises, "power to dispose" (有權處
置) includes the power to sell, rent, let, sub-let or otherwise part with
possession of those premises. (Enacted 1995)

"power to dispose" (有權處置)