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Australia

http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/pasteact/0/311/top.htm

The Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission on Disability Rights addresses directly the rights of persons with a visual, hearing or other disability who have trained Assistance Dogs. The objects of this Act are:

(a) to eliminate, as far as possible, discrimination against persons on the ground of disability in the areas of:

(i) work, accommodation, education, access to premises, clubs and sport; and

(ii) the provision of goods, facilities, services and land; and

(iii) existing laws; and

(iv) the administration of Commonwealth laws and programs; and

(b) to ensure, as far as practicable, that persons with disabilities have the same rights to equality before the law as the rest of the community; and

(c) to promote recognition and acceptance within the community of the principle that persons with disabilities have the same fundamental rights as the rest of the community.

Applies to	Guide, Hearing, and Service Dogs
Accessibility	“It is unlawful for a person to discriminate against another person on the ground of the other person's disability . . . by refusing to allow the other person access to, or the use of, any premises that the public or a section of the public is entitled or allowed to enter or use (whether for payment or not); or . . . by requiring the other person to leave such premises or cease to use such facilities.”
Goods, Services, and Facilities	“It is unlawful for a person who, whether for payment or not, provides goods or services, or makes facilities available, to discriminate against another person on the ground of the other person's disability or a disability of any of that other person's associates . . . by refusing to provide the other person with those goods or services or to make those facilities available to the other person.”
Discrimination	It is illegal to discriminate against a disabled person because of “ . . . a dog trained to assist the aggrieved person in activities where hearing is required, or because of any matter related to that fact; or . . . any other animal trained to assist the aggrieved person to alleviate the effect of the disability.”
Penalties	“Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code (except Part 2.5) applies to all offences against this Act.” [general principles of criminal responsibility]