New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMBAT SPORTS ACT 2013 - SECT 86

86 Provision of information to Authority

(1) This section applies to the following matters:

(a) whether a person should be or continue to be registered under this Act,

(b) whether a permit should be granted or revoked under this Act,

(c) an application for approval of a body as an approved amateur body under this Act,

(d) the investigation of whether a provision of this Act or the regulations or rules or a condition of a registration or permit or approval under this Act has been contravened,

(e) whether a prohibition order should be made, revoked or varied.

(2) A notice under this section may be given to any of the following persons:

(a) an applicant for registration or a permit,

(b) a combatant, industry participant or promoter,

(c) the holder of a permit,

(d) a person who provides or controls premises at which a combat sport contest or sparring is held or proposed to be held,

(e) a medical practitioner or other person who exercises functions under this Act,

(f) a person who is the subject of a prohibition order or proposed prohibition order,

(g) an approved amateur body or a body seeking approval as such a body,

(h) any other person the Authority has reasonable cause to believe may have relevant information about a matter to which this section applies.

(3) The Authority may, by written notice given to a person, require the person within the period specified in the notice (not being less than 14 days after the notice is given) to do one or more of the following:

(a) provide, in accordance with directions in the notice, such information as, in the opinion of the Authority, is relevant to a matter to which this section applies,

(b) produce, in accordance with directions in the notice, such records as, in the opinion of the Authority, are relevant to any such matter and are specified in the notice,

(c) permit the examination of any such records, the taking of extracts from them and the making of copies of them,

(d) authorise a person described in the notice to comply with a requirement specified in this section,

(e) furnish to the Authority such authorisations and consents as the Authority requires for the purpose of obtaining information about any such matter (including financial and other confidential information).

(4) A notice under this section must not require a medical practitioner or a qualified person to disclose health information about a person unless the information relates to the exercise by the medical practitioner or qualified person of functions under this Act in relation to the person.

(5) A notice given to a person under this section must warn the person that failure to comply with the notice, without reasonable excuse, would constitute an offence.

(6) It is not an offence for a person to refuse to provide information or a document under this section on the ground that the information or document might tend to incriminate him or her, unless he or she was first given the warning in subsection (5).

(7) In this section:

"health information" has the same meaning as it has in the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 .

"qualified person" has the same meaning as it has in section 61.