which persons of another such description are not made subject or are accorded privileges or advantages that are not accorded to persons of another such description. 458. Furthermore, the Equal Opportunities Act provide further safeguards and protection by complementing the provisions in the Constitution. Under the EOA, direct or indirect discrimination is interpreted as a less favourable treatment on the basis of status. "Status" includes age, caste, creed, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, impairment, marital status, colour, place of origin, political opinion, race, sex. 459. The Equal Opportunities Act applies to employment activities, education, provision of goods and services, accommodation, the disposal of immovable property, companies, partnerships, “sociétés”, and registered associations, clubs and access to premises which the public may enter or use and sports. It also applies to both the public and private sectors and includes within its ambit sexual harassment. Discrimination by victimization is also prohibited. 460. Certain provisions of the Criminal Code achieve in effect the promotion of mutual respect and tolerance. Some of these provisions and their related penalties have been listed below – 1. Section 183 (“Interference with freedom of conscience”) provides for a fine not exceeding 100,000 rupees, and by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years; 2. Section 184 (“Disturbing religious ceremony”) provides for a fine not exceeding 100,000 rupees and imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years; 3. Section 185 (“Outrage on religious worship”) provides for a fine not exceeding 100,000 rupees, and imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years; 4. Section 206 (“Outrage against public and religious morality”) provides for imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years and to a fine not exceeding 100,000 rupees; 5. Section 282 (“Stirring up racial hatred”) provides under subsection (1) for a fine not exceeding 100,000 rupees and penal servitude for a term not exceeding 20 years 6. Section 283 (“Sedition”) is an offence committed by any person who, by any means specified in section 206 — (a) holds or brings into hatred or contempt, or excites disaffection towards, the Government or the administration of justice, (b) raises discontent or disaffection among the citizens of Mauritius or promotes feelings or ill will and hostility between different classes of such citizens. The penalty provided for is imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years and a fine not exceeding 100,000 rupees; 7. Section 286 refers to “Importing seditious publication”; 8. Section 287 relates to “Suspending publication of newspaper containing seditious publication”; 9. Section 287A concerns “Prohibiting circulation of seditious publication”; 155