New South Wales Repealed Acts

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COMBAT SPORTS ACT 2008 - SECT 42

42 Unfit combatant not to engage in contests or sparring

(cf 1986 Act s52)

(1) Except to the extent that the Authority, on the advice or recommendation of a medical practitioner or after considering the report of a medical practitioner, otherwise directs, the following provisions have effect:

(a) if, following a medical examination under section 40, a medical practitioner gives, in relation to a combatant and a proposed professional combat sport contest, a certificate that, in the opinion of the medical practitioner, the combatant is not medically fit to engage in that contest--the combatant must not engage in that contest,

(b) if a medical practitioner certifies under section 41 (c) that, in the opinion of the medical practitioner, a combatant is not medically fit to engage in a proposed professional combat sport contest--the combatant must not engage in that contest,

(c) if a medical practitioner gives, in relation to a combatant a certificate under section 41 (d)--the combatant must not, before the date specified in the certificate, engage in any professional combat sport contest or any sparring, or both, as may be specified in the certificate,

(d) if, following a medical examination under section 41, a medical practitioner gives, in relation to a combatant, a certificate to the same effect as a certificate under section 41 (d)--the combatant must not, before the date specified in the certificate, engage in any professional combat sport contest or any sparring, or both, as may be specified in the certificate.

(2) Despite any direction given by the Authority under subsection (1) or the opinion of any other medical practitioner, if the medical practitioner present at a professional combat sport contest is of the opinion, immediately before the contest, that the combatant is not medically fit to engage in the contest, and so informs the combatant, the combatant must not engage in the contest.

(3) A contravention of subsection (1) or (2) is a disciplinary breach attracting a fine.