New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

COMBAT SPORTS ACT 2008 - SECT 48

48 Functions of medical practitioner after contest

(cf 1986 Act s58)
The functions of an examining medical practitioner under this section in relation to a combatant who has engaged in a professional combat sport contest are as follows:

(a) to conduct such 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) where the medical practitioner 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,

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

(i) to notify the combatant and the combat sport inspector present at the contest in which the combatant was engaged 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.