E/CN.4/1992/52 page 135 2. Any person providing or offering to provide a good or service who without legitimate reason refuses it, either himself, or through his agent, to the person requesting it because of his origin or the fact that he does or does not belong to a particular ethnic group, region, nation or religion, or who makes his offer conditional on origin or on belonging or not belonging to a particular ethnic group, region, nation, race or religion; 3. Any person who, under the conditions specified in 2. above, refuses a good or a service to an association or society or to one of its members by reason of the origin of its members or some of them or the fact that they do or do not belong to a particular ethnic group, religion, nation, race or religion; 4. Any person who by reason of his occupation or duties is led to employ one or more staff, for himself or for another, who without legitimate reason refuses to engage or dismisses a person because of his origin or the fact that he does or does not belong to a particular ethnic group, region, nation, race or religion. Offences of this kind are very rare, if not non-existent, and accordingly no judicial decisions rendered in such cases are available." "Our country has set up a Supreme Council of Religious Affairs. It has also laid down penalties for anyone who commits aggression against anyone else." Trinidad and Tobago "No specific legislation. It is an offence to make use of insulting, annoying or violent language with intent to, or which might tend to, provoke any other person to commit a breach of the peace." Turkey "Secularism is one of the constituting principles of the Republic. Religious intransigence and intolerance are deemed to be an infringement of the Constitution." Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic See under (f) United States of America In its general reply to the questionnaire, the Government of the United States of America stated that "in April 1990, the President of the United States signed into law a bill passed by the U.S. Congress concerning 'hate crimes' (P.L. 101-275 (1990)). Under the 'hate crimes act 1 , the Attorney General is to acquire data about crimes that manifest evidence of a prejudice based on religion or other factors. The purposes and benefits of