1978 BILL 215 Fourth Session, 18th Legislature, 27 Elizabeth II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 215

AN ACT TO AMEND THE INDIVIDUAL1S RIGHTS PROTECTION ACT (No.2) MR. R. SPEAKER First Reading ________________________________________ _ Second Reading ______________________________________ _ Committee of the Whole _______________________________ _ Third Reading _______________________________________ _ Royal Assent ______ --_-- _________ - _ ------- ---- - - - - - --- Printed by the Queen's Printer for the Province of Alberta, EDMONTON

Bill 215 Mr. R. Speaker BILL 215 1978

AN ACT TO AMEND THE INDIVIDUAL'S RIGHTS PROTECTION ACT (No.2) (Assented to , 1978) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Individual's Rights Protection Act is amended by this Act. 2. In the following provisions physioal handicap is added after sex wherever it occurs:

section 2 (1 );

section 6;

section 7;

section 9;

section 14.

Section 3 is amended (

a) by renumbering the

section as subsection (1): (

b) by adding the following after subsection (1):

(2) Nothing in this Act shall prohibit discrimination against a person with relation to any aooommodation, service or facility where the person making the discrim­ ination has reasonable grounds to believe that the pro­ vision of the accommodation, servioe or facility would result in danger or significant inconvenience t'O any person.

Section 6 is amended by adding the following after subsection (3 ): ( 4) Subsection ( 1) does not apply where the em­ ployer or person acting on his behalf has reasonruble grounds to believe that the employment of a person with a physical bandicap would result in danger or significant inconvenience to any person.

Explanatory Notes I. This Bill will amend

chapter 2 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1972. 2. Forbids discrimination on grounds of physical handicap.

Section 3 presently reads: 3. No person, directly or indirectly, alone or with another, by himself or by the interposition of another, shall (

a) deny to any person or class of persons any accommodation, services or facUities customarily available to the public, or (

b) discriminate against any person or· class of persons with respect to any accommodation, services or facilities customarily available to the public, because of the race, religious beliefs, colour, sex, ancestry or place of origin of that person or class of persons or of any other person or class of persons. 4. Amends

section 6 with respect to employment of persons with a physical handicap.

(5) N'O emplDyer shall emplDy a person with a physi­ cal handicap fDr any work at a rate of pay that is less than the rate 'Of pay at which a person withDut a physical handicap is emplDyed by that emplDyer fDr similar or substantially similar work. ( 6) Work for which a persDn with a physioal handicap is employed and wDrk for which a person with'Out a phy­ sical handicap is empl'Oyed, shall be deemed t'O be similar Dr substantially similar if the job, duties 'Or services the persDns are called upon t'O perf'Orm are similar 'Or sub­ stantially similar. 5. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is as­ sented to. 2 Title: 1978 (18th, 4th) Bill 215,

An Act to Amend the Individual's Rights Protection Act (No. 2)