{"id":"sports-drug-testing-act-2000","name":"Sports Drug Testing Act 2000","slug":"sports-drug-testing-act-2000","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"sa","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":110206,"registerId":"sa-sports-drug-testing-act-2000-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-03","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Sports Drug Testing Act 2000","content":"South Australia\nSports Drug Testing Act 2000\nAn Act to provide for the collection of samples from State competitors for testing for scheduled drugs and doping methods; to confer functions and powers on the Australian Sports Drug Agency in relation to collecting and testing those samples; and for other related purposes.\n\nContents\n1\tShort title\n3\tInterpretation\n4\tState competitors\n5\tFunctions and powers of the Agency\n6\tAgency may request samples\n7\tObtaining samples from competitors under the age of 18 years\n8\tEntry of information on Register\n9\tNotification of entry on Register\n10\tReview by the Administrative Review Tribunal of Agency's decisions\n11\tRemoval of entries from Register\n12\tAdditional requirements as to notification\n13\tGiving of notices\n14\tDrug testing schemes to be laid before Parliament\n15\tRegulations\nLegislative history\n\nThe Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:\n1—Short title\nThis Act may be cited as the Sports Drug Testing Act 2000.\n3—Interpretation\n\t(1)\tIn this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—\nAdministrative Review Tribunal means the Tribunal of that name established under the Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024 of the Commonwealth;\nAgency means the Australian Sports Drug Agency established by the Commonwealth Act;\nCommonwealth Act means the Australian Sports Drug Agency Act 1990 of the Commonwealth as in force from time to time, and includes regulations and orders as in force from time to time under that Act;\ndrug testing scheme means a drug testing scheme under the Commonwealth Act, as modified (if at all) by the regulations under this Act;\nMinister means the Minister responsible for the administration of this Act;\nRegister means a Register of Notifiable Events established and maintained by the Agency under a drug testing scheme;\nrelevant sporting organisation, in relation to a State competitor, means a sporting organisation (State or national)—\n\t(a)\tof which the competitor is, in that capacity, a member; or\n\t(b)\twith which the competitor is, in that capacity, associated in any way;\nscheduled drugs or doping methods means drugs, or doping methods, included in a schedule set out in a drug testing scheme;\nsenior open sporting event, in relation to any particular sport, means a national sporting competition that is open to persons of all ages who are competing, either as individual competitors or as members of a team, at the top level for that sport;\nState competitor see section 4.\n\t(2)\tExpressions used in this Act that are also used in the Commonwealth Act have in this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, the same respective meanings as those expressions have in the Commonwealth Act.\n\t(3)\tWhere this Act refers to a drug testing scheme in relation to a State competitor, the scheme must be read as applying with the necessary adaptations.\n4—State competitors\nFor the purposes of this Act, a person is a State competitor if the person—\n\t(a)\trepresents, or has been selected to represent, a particular sport or South Australia in that sport, either as an individual competitor or as a member of a team, in senior open sporting events;\n\t(b)\tis a member of a squad for a particular sport from which persons are selected to represent South Australia or to represent that sport, either as individual competitors or as members of a team, in senior open sporting events; or\n\t(c)\tis on a scholarship with the South Australian Sports Institute under which he or she receives financial assistance, or has the right to use Institute services and facilities, or both; or\n\t(d)\tas a direct or indirect result of having had his or her name entered on a Register pursuant to this Act, has been prevented from participating, or has become ineligible to participate, in sporting events.\n5—Functions and powers of the Agency\n\t(1)\tThe Agency has the following functions:\n\t(a)\tto disseminate information about—\n\t(i)\tthe possibility of State competitors being requested to provide samples for testing and the procedures involved in providing and testing samples; and\n\t(ii)\tthe likely consequences for State competitors who fail to comply with requests for samples or who record positive test results; and\n\t(b)\tsubject to this Act, to collect samples from State competitors selected by the Agency and cause them to be tested for the purpose only of determining whether the competitors have been using scheduled drugs or doping methods; and\n\t(c)\tsuch other functions as are conferred on the Agency by this Act or the regulations.\n\t(2)\tThe Agency has the powers necessary, convenient or incidental to the performance of its functions.\n\t(3)\tWithout limiting the generality of subsection (2), the Agency may—\n\t(a)\tcharge reasonable fees for services, information or advice provided by the Agency;\n\t(b)\testablish and maintain a list of all persons whom it knows to be State competitors;\n\t(c)\tdelegate any of its powers (other than this power of delegation) to the Chairperson, the Chief Executive or any employee of the Agency.\n\t(4)\tIf the Agency delegates any of its powers—\n\t(a)\tthe delegation is revocable at will; and\n\t(b)\tthe Agency is not prevented from exercising the delegated power; and\n\t(c)\tthe delegate is, in exercising the power, subject to any directions given by the Agency.\n\t(5)\tThe Agency may perform its functions and exercise its powers under this Act within or outside Australia.\n6—Agency may request samples\n\t(1)\tThe Agency may, in accordance with a drug testing scheme—\n\t(a)\trequest a State competitor to provide a sample to the Agency; and\n\t(b)\tmake any other ancillary request of the competitor; and\n\t(c)\tif it appears to the Agency that the competitor is likely to fail to comply with a request to provide a sample, tell any relevant sporting organisation of the likely failure, with a view to the organisation persuading the competitor to comply with the request; and\n\t(d)\tseek information from any relevant sporting organisation about any claim of the competitor that he or she has retired from sporting competition.\n\t(2)\tThe Agency must notify the competitor in accordance with the scheme of the possible consequences of failure to comply with a request to provide a sample.\n\t(3)\tThe competitor will be taken to have failed to comply with the request to provide a sample if and only if—\n\t(a)\tthe competitor fails to provide a sample as required; or\n\t(b)\tthe competitor fails to complete or sign any form required under the scheme to be completed or signed by the competitor; or\n\t(c)\tafter providing the sample, the competitor—\n\t(i)\tfails to do something in relation to the sample that is required under the scheme to be done by the competitor; or\n\t(ii)\tdoes something in relation to the sample that the competitor is required under the scheme not to do.\n\t(4)\tA person incurs no criminal or civil liability by reason only of failing to comply with a request to provide a sample.\n\t(5)\tThe Agency will, in accordance with the drug testing scheme, cause a sample provided by a State competitor to be tested and will follow the procedures set out in the scheme for dealing with samples.\n7—Obtaining samples from competitors under the age of 18 years\n\t(1)\tThe Agency cannot exercise its powers to obtain a sample from a State competitor who is under the age of 18 years unless a parent or guardian of the child, or any other person who stands in loco parentis to the child, has given written consent to the giving of the sample.\n\t(2)\tA consent may be given for the purposes of subsection (1) either generally or in relation to a particular request for a sample.\n8—Entry of information on Register\nIf a State competitor fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a request to provide a sample to the Agency or a positive test result is returned in relation to a sample provided by a State competitor, the Agency will enter the name of the competitor on the relevant Register in accordance with the drug testing scheme, together with such other particulars as the scheme requires.\n9—Notification of entry on Register\n\t(1)\tWhere the Agency has entered the name and other particulars of a State competitor on a Register, the Agency must, in accordance with the relevant drug testing scheme—\n\t(a)\tnotify the competitor in writing of the making of the entry; and\n\t(b)\tnotify each relevant sporting organisation in writing of the making and particulars of the entry.\n\t(2)\tThe Agency must also notify the competitor of the competitor's right to have the Agency's decision reviewed and of any other rights conferred on the competitor by the scheme.\n10—Review by the Administrative Review Tribunal of Agency's decisions\nA State competitor whose name has been entered on a Register may apply to the Administrative Review Tribunal for review of the Agency's decision and, for that purpose, the Administrative Review Tribunal has the same jurisdiction as it has in relation to competitors under the Commonwealth Act.\n11—Removal of entries from Register\n\t(1)\tIf the Administrative Review Tribunal sets aside a decision of the Agency to enter a State competitor's name on a Register, the Agency must, as soon as practicable, remove from the Register any entry that was made as a result of the Agency's decision.\n\t(2)\tIf—\n\t(a)\tan entry is removed from a Register under subsection (1); or\n\t(b)\tan order is made under section 32 of the Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024 of the Commonwealth staying or otherwise affecting the operation or implementation of a decision of the Agency to make such an entry; or\n\t(c)\tan order referred to in paragraph (b) is revoked,\nthe Agency must, as soon as practicable, give written notice of that fact to each person or body to whom notice of the making of the entry was given.\n12—Additional requirements as to notification\n\t(1)\tWhere the Agency is required to give notice to a State competitor of the entry of information on, or the removal of information from, a Register, the Agency will, if it is aware that the competitor is on a scholarship with the South Australian Sports Institute, also give notice of the entry or removal to the Minister.\n\t(2)\tThe Agency will, if requested by the Minister in writing to do so, furnish the Minister with a written notice stating, in respect of each State competitor specified in the request—\n\t(a)\twhether the competitor has returned a negative test result; or\n\t(b)\twhether the competitor's name and other particulars have been entered on a Register and, if so, the contents of the entry.\n\t(3)\tIf a sporting organisation is notified by the Agency of the entry of information on the Register in relation to a State competitor, the organisation must give the Minister written notice of the contents of the entry and of any action taken, or to be taken, by the organisation as a result of the entry.\n13—Giving of notices\nWhere the Agency is required or authorised to give a written notice to a person or body under this Act, the notice must be given in a manner set out in section 67A(a) of the Commonwealth Act or in any other manner prescribed by the regulations.\n14—Drug testing schemes to be laid before Parliament\nThe Minister will—\n\t(a)\twithin 6 sitting days of the commencement of this Act, cause copies of all drug testing schemes that have been promulgated (but have not been revoked) under the Commonwealth Act to be laid before both Houses of Parliament; and\n\t(b)\twithin 6 sitting days of a drug testing scheme being promulgated under the Commonwealth Act or of any amendments to a drug testing scheme being so promulgated, cause copies of the scheme or amendments to be laid before both Houses of Parliament.\n15—Regulations\nThe Governor may make such regulations as are necessary or expedient for the purposes of this Act.\nLegislative history\nNotes\n\t•\tFor further information relating to the Act and subordinate legislation made under the Act see the Index of South Australian Statutes or www.legislation.sa.gov.au.\nPrincipal Act and amendments\nNew entries appear in bold.\nYear\nNo\nTitle\nAssent\nCommencement\n2000\n32\nSports Drug Testing Act 2000\n6.7.2000\n23.11.2000 (Gazette 23.11.2000 p3235)\n2025\n54\nStatutes Amendment (Administrative Review Tribunal) Act 2025\n20.11.2025\nPt 12 (ss 20 to 22)—20.11.2025: s 2\nProvisions amended\nNew entries appear in bold.\nEntries that relate to provisions that have been deleted appear in italics.\nProvision\nHow varied\nCommencement\ns 2\nomitted under Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002\n\ns 3\n\n\ns 3(1)\n\n\nAdministrative Appeals Tribunal\ndeleted by 54/2025 s 20\n20.11.2025\nAdministrative Review Tribunal\ninserted by 54/2025 s 20\n20.11.2025\ns 10\nheading amended by 54/2025 s 21(1)\n20.11.2025\n\namended by 54/2025 s 21(2)\n20.11.2025\ns 11\n\n\ns 11(1)\namended by 54/2025 s 22(1)\n20.11.2025\ns 11(2)\namended by 54/2025 s 22(2)\n20.11.2025\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]},"summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Scope assessment is not possible — the full text of the legislation was not retrievable due to a broken or outdated hyperlink following a website migration on 24 March 2026. No comparison between original intent and current provisions could be made."},"complexity_factors":["No legislative text was available to assess — the source URL returned a 404 Page Not Found error","Complexity cannot be meaningfully rated without access to the actual provisions of the Act","Score of 1 reflects absence of content, not simplicity of the underlying law"],"plain_english_summary":"The Sports Drug Testing Act 2000 (SA) establishes legal authority for drug testing of athletes in South Australia, sets consequences for refusals or positive tests, and aligns state procedures with national anti‑doping frameworks.  \n\nIt affects athletes, sporting bodies, officials and event organizers by creating compliance duties, penalties and duties that protect sporting integrity and manage legal risk. The Act’s text wasn’t retrievable from the SA legislation site; search legislation.sa.gov.au or contact OPCWeb@sa.gov.au."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Amendments recorded in the legislative history (notably 54/2025) update references to the Administrative Review Tribunal and amend headings and sections (see s3 amendments, s10 and s11 amended by 54/2025). Those changes alter review‑body references and some procedural text but do not change the Act’s substantive scope: who qualifies as a State competitor, the Agency’s testing and recording powers, notification duties, or the Register mechanism remain in place (see ss4–12)."},"complexity_factors":["Cross-reference and dependence on the Commonwealth Act and drug testing schemes (s3(2), s3(3)) which require reading state scheme provisions with necessary adaptations.","Defined category of ‘State competitor’ with multiple pathways (representation, squads, scholarships, Register effects) creating scope complexity (s4).","Interplay between Agency powers, delegation and fee‑charging (s5(2)–(4), s5(3)(a)) affecting operational discretion and cost recovery.","Register creation, entry and removal rules tied to scheme procedures and Tribunal review, producing procedural and evidentiary complexity (ss8–11).","Notification and reporting obligations to competitors, relevant sporting organisations and the Minister, including additional requirements for scholarship holders (ss9,12).","Special consent regime for under‑18s (s7) adding procedural safeguards and administrative steps.","Ability for the Agency to operate within or outside Australia (s5(5)) which raises cross‑jurisdictional implementation considerations.","Regulations and scheme adaptations (ss3(3),15,14) can alter practical application, increasing reliance on subordinate instruments."],"plain_english_summary":"This Act authorises the Australian Sports Drug Agency to request and test biological samples from defined “State competitors” for scheduled drugs or doping methods, and to record positive tests or failures to comply on a Register, with written notice to competitors and relevant sporting organisations and parental consent required for under‑18s (ss4–9,11).  The Agency controls who is tested and entered, may charge reasonable fees (s5(3)(a)), and its entries can be reviewed by the Administrative Review Tribunal; the Minister and sporting organisations receive specified notifications (ss5,6,9–12,10)."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation remains tightly focused on its original purpose of enabling drug testing of South Australian elite athletes. The 2025 amendments merely updated the name of the federal review tribunal (from Administrative Appeals Tribunal to Administrative Review Tribunal) without expanding the Act's substantive scope or adding new categories of regulated persons."},"complexity_factors":["Heavy reliance on external definitions: 8 defined terms in s3(1) plus all expressions from the Commonwealth Act (s3(2)), meaning the full legal meaning requires reading two statutes simultaneously","Nested conditional logic in s4: Four alternative pathways to 'State competitor' status, with one pathway (s4(d)) being circular (depends on Register entry which depends on the Act itself)","Delegated legislative framework: Core operational details (drug testing schemes) live in Commonwealth regulations and orders, not in the Act itself","Cross-referencing to federal tribunal jurisdiction: s10 incorporates Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024 (Cth) procedures by reference","Multiple notification pathways: s9, s11(2), and s12 create overlapping but distinct notification requirements to competitors, sporting organisations, and the Minister","Recent amendment integration: 2025 amendments replacing 'Administrative Appeals Tribunal' with 'Administrative Review Tribunal' show temporal dependency on federal legislative changes"],"plain_english_summary":"This South Australian law allows drug testing of elite athletes who represent the state. It works with the national Australian Sports Drug Agency to collect samples from 'State competitors'—defined as top-level athletes representing South Australia, members of state squads, or scholarship holders at the South Australian Sports Institute.\n\n**Key things the law does:**\n\n- **Powers the Agency**: Gives the Australian Sports Drug Agency authority to request samples from these athletes, test them for banned drugs or doping methods, and keep a Register recording failures to provide samples or positive test results.\n\n- **Protects young athletes**: Requires written consent from a parent or guardian before testing anyone under 18.\n\n- **Creates consequences**: Athletes who refuse testing or test positive get their name entered on a Register, which sporting organisations are told about. This can affect their eligibility to compete.\n\n- **Provides appeal rights**: Athletes can challenge decisions to put them on the Register through the Administrative Review Tribunal (a federal body that reviews government decisions).\n\n- **Requires transparency**: Drug testing schemes must be tabled in Parliament, and the Minister can request information about athletes' test results.\n\n**Important limitation**: Failing to provide a sample doesn't create criminal or civil liability—it's purely a sporting sanction matter.\n\n**Why it matters**: It ensures South Australian elite athletes play by the same anti-doping rules as national competitors, maintaining fair competition and clean sport."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/sports-drug-testing-act-2000","history":"/api/acts/sports-drug-testing-act-2000/history","analysis":"/api/acts/sports-drug-testing-act-2000/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/sports-drug-testing-act-2000/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/sports-drug-testing-act-2000/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/sports-drug-testing-act-2000/documents"}}