Hong Kong Ordinances

DISABILITY 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 employees with a disability only, or his employees
        without a disability only, access to facilities for training which
        would help to fit them for that work; or

   (b)  encouraging persons with a disability only, or persons without a
        disability 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 with or without a disability,
        as the case may be, among those doing that work or the number of
        persons with or without a disability, respectively, 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 members with a disability of the organization only, or
        members without a disability 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 members with a disability only, or members without a
        disability 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 with
        or without a disability, as the case may be, among persons holding
        such posts in the organization or the number of persons with or
        without a disability, respectively, 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 persons with a disability only, or persons without a disability
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 with
or without a disability, as the case may be, among those members or the number
of persons with or without a disability, respectively, among the members was
comparatively small. (Enacted 1995)