Human Rights Code

Statutes of Ontario 1990, Chapter H.19
Note: This document is not up to date. The following amendments are not included: 1993, c.27, Sched.; 1993, c.35, s.56; 1994, c.10, s.22.

Preamble

Part I -- FREEDOM FROM DISCRIMINATION

1. Services
2. Accommodation / Harassment in accommodation
3. Contracts
4. Accommodation of person under eighteen / Idem
5. Employment / Harassment in employment
6. Vocational associations
7. Harassment because of sex in accommodation / Harassment because of sex in workplaces / Sexual solicitation by a person in position to confer benefit, etc.
8. Reprisals
9. Infringement prohibited

Part II -- INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION

10. Definitions / Pregnancy
11. Constructive discrimination / Idem / Idem
12. Discrimination because of association
13. Announced intention to discriminate / Opinion
14. Special programs / Review by Commission / Reconsideration / Effect of order / Subs. (2) does not apply to Crown
15. Age sixty-five or over
16. Canadian Citizenship / Idem / Idem
17. Handicap / Accommodation & undue hardship / Idem / Powers of Commission
18. Special interest organizations
19. Separate school rights preserved 1867, c. 3 / Duties of teachers
20. Restriction of facilities by sex / Minimum drinking age 1990, c. 15 / Recreational clubs
21. Shared accommodation / Restrictions on accommodation, sex
22. Restrictions for insurance contracts, etc.
23. Discriminatory employment advertising / Application for employment / Questions at interview / Employment agencies
24. Special employment / Accommodation & undue hardship / Idem
25. Employment conditional on membership in pension plan / Pension or disability plan under R.S.O. 1980, c. 137 / Employee disability and pension plans: handicap / Compensation
26. Discrimination in employment under government contracts / Idem: government grants and loans / Sanction

PART III -- THE ONTARIO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

27. Commission continued / Responsible to Minister / Chairman / Remuneration / Staff / Divisions
28. Race relations division / Functions
29. Function of Commission
30. Evidence obtained in course of investigation / Idem
31. Annual report / Idem

PART IV -- ENFORCEMENT

32. Complaints / Idem / Combining of complaints
33. Investigation of complaints / Investigation / Powers on investigation / Entry into dwellings / Denial of entry / Refusal to produce / Warrant for search / Warrant for entry / Execution of warrant / Expiration of warrant / Obstruction / Idem / Admissibility of copies
34. Decision to not deal with complaint / Notice of decision and reasons
35. Panel of members for boards of inquiry / Remuneration
36. Referred to board of inquiry / Notice of decision not to appoint inquiry
37. Reconsideration / Notice of application / Decision
38. Appointment of board / Members at hearing not to have taken part in investigation, etc.
39. Hearing / Parties / Adding parties / Adjournment on production / Adjournment for view
40. Recording of evidence
41. Orders of boards of inquiry / Order to prevent harassment / Re-appointment of board / Costs / Decision within 30 days
42. Appeal from decision of board of inquiry / Record to be filed in court / Powers of court
43. Settlements
44. Penalty Consent to prosecution
45. Acts of officers, etc. / Opinion re authority or acquiescence

PART V -- GENERAL

46. Definitions
47. Act binds Crown / Act has primacy over other Acts / Application
48. Regulations
Proclaimed September 15, 1990.