New South Wales Repealed Acts

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COMBAT SPORTS ACT 2008 - SECT 41

41 Functions of examining medical practitioner

(cf 1986 Act s51)
The functions of an examining medical practitioner under this section in relation to a combatant who proposes to engage in a professional combat sport contest are as follows:

(a) to conduct such an examination of the combatant as is prescribed by the regulations,

(b) to record the particulars prescribed by the regulations in the combatant's medical record book,

(c) to certify in the combatant's medical record book whether or not, in the opinion of the medical practitioner, the combatant is medically fit to engage in the proposed contest,

(d) if the medical practitioner has certified under paragraph (c) that the combatant is not medically fit to engage in the proposed contest and considers it to be in the interests of the health or safety of the combatant to do so--to certify in the combatant's medical record book that, in the opinion of the medical practitioner, the combatant should not engage in:

(i) any professional combat sport contest, or

(ii) any professional combat sport contest or any sparring,

before a specified date,

(e) where the medical practitioner has given a certificate under paragraph (c) or (d), without delay:

(i) to notify the combatant and, where the examination was carried out immediately before the proposed contest, the combat sport inspector present at the contest of the matters as to which the medical practitioner has certified, and

(ii) to prepare and forward to the Authority a report of the examination.