### Sex Discrimination Ordinance 《性別歧視條例》

25. Discrimination by responsible bodies for educational establishments
It is unlawful for the responsible body for an educational establishment to discriminate against a woman—
(a) in the terms on which it offers to admit her to the establishment as a student;
(b) by refusing or deliberately omitting to accept an application for her admission to the establishment as a student; or
(c) where she is a student of the establishment—
(i) in the way it affords her access to any benefits, facilities or services, or by refusing or deliberately omitting to afford her access to them; or
(ii) by excluding her from the establishment or subjecting her to any other detriment.

26. Exceptions for single-sex establishments
(1) Section 25(a) and (b) shall not apply to the admission of students to any educational establishment (single-sex establishment

27. Exceptions for single-sex establishments turning co-educational
(1) Where at any time—
(a) the responsible body for an educational establishment which is a single-sex establishment determines to alter its admissions arrangements so that the establishment will cease to be a single-sex establishment; or
(b) section 26(2) applies to the admission of boarders to an educational establishment but the responsible body for the establishment determines to alter its admissions arrangements so that that section will cease so to apply,

then the responsible body may, by notice served on the Commission, specify the date on which that determination is to take effect.
(2) Where the responsible body for an educational establishment has served a notice referred to in subsection (1), then if the responsible body, at any time during the period of 3 years beginning on the date specified in that notice as the date on which the determination concerned referred to in that subsection is to take effect (or such longer period not exceeding 3 years as the Commission may allow in any particular case), refuses or deliberately omits to accept an application for the admission of a person to the establishment as a student, that refusal or omission, as the case may be, shall not be taken to contravene any provision of this Ordinance.
(3) This section shall not operate to afford any exemption from liability under this Ordinance except as provided for in subsection (2).

### Sex Discrimination Ordinance 《性別歧視條例》

28. Discrimination in provision of goods, facilities or services
(1) It is unlawful for any person concerned with the provision (for payment or not) of goods, facilities or services to the public or a section of the public to discriminate against a woman who seeks to obtain or use those goods, facilities or services—
(a) by refusing or deliberately omitting to provide her with any of them; or
(b) by refusing or deliberately omitting to provide her with goods, facilities or services of the like quality, in the like manner and on the like terms as are normal in his case in relation to male members of the public or (where she belongs to a section of the public) to male members of that section.
(2) The following are examples of the facilities and services referred to in subsection (1)—
(a) access to and use of any place which members of the public or a section of the public are permitted to enter;
(b) accommodation in a hotel, guesthouse or other similar establishment;
(c) facilities by way of banking or insurance or for grants, loans, credit or finance;
(d) facilities for education;
(e) facilities for entertainment, recreation or refreshment;
(f) facilities for transport or travel;
(g) the services of any profession or trade;
(h) the services of—
(i)-(ii) (Repealed 78 of 1999 s. 7)(iii) any department of the Government; or
(iv) any undertaking by or of the Government.
(3) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that where a particular skill is commonly exercised in a different way for men and for women it shall not be a contravention of subsection (1) for a person who does not normally exercise it for women to insist on exercising it for a woman only in accordance with his normal practice or, if he reasonably considers it impracticable to do that in her case, to refuse or deliberately omit to exercise it.

### Sex Discrimination Ordinance 《性別歧視條例》

29. Discrimination in disposal or management of premises
(1) It is unlawful for a person, in relation to premises in Hong Kong of which he has power to dispose, to discriminate against a woman—
(a) in the terms on which he offers her those premises;
(b) by refusing her application for those premises; or
(c) in his treatment of her in relation to any list of persons in need of premises of that description.
(2) It is unlawful for a person, in relation to premises managed by him, to discriminate against a woman occupying the premises—
(a) in the way he affords her access to any benefits or facilities, or by refusing or deliberately omitting to afford her access to them; or
(b) by evicting her, or subjecting her 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) 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.

30. Discrimination: consent for assignment or sub-letting
(1) Where the licence or consent of the landlord or of any other person is required for the disposal to any person of premises in Hong Kong comprised in a tenancy, it is unlawful for the landlord or other person to discriminate against a woman by withholding the licence or consent for disposal of the premises to her.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply if—
(a) the person withholding a licence or consent, or a near relative of his (the relevant occupier

31. Exceptions for small dwellings
(1) Sections 28(1) and 29 shall not apply to the provision by a person of accommodation in any premises, or the disposal of premises by him, if—
(a) that person or a near relative of his (the relevant occupier

32. Exceptions from section 28(1) for health and safety considerations
Section 28(1) shall not be construed as rendering unlawful discrimination falling within section 8 if the discrimination is imposed in order to comply with health and safety considerations which are reasonable in the circumstances.

### Sex Discrimination Ordinance 《性別歧視條例》

33. Exceptions for voluntary bodies
(1) This section applies to a body the activities of which are carried on otherwise than for profit.
(2) Sections 28(1) and 29 shall not be construed as rendering unlawful—
(a) the restriction of membership of any body to which this section applies to persons of one sex (disregarding any minor exceptions); or
(b) the provision of benefits, facilities or services to members of any body to which this section applies where the membership is so restricted,

even though membership of the body is open to the public, or to a section of the public.
(3) Nothing in section 28 or 29 shall—
(a) be construed as affecting a provision to which this subsection applies; or
(b) render unlawful an act which is done in order to give effect to such a provision.
(4) Subsection (3) applies to a provision for conferring benefits on persons of one sex only (disregarding any benefits to persons of the opposite sex which are exceptional or are relatively insignificant), being a provision which constitutes the main object of a body to which this section applies.