2ACompetitors

#### 2A Competitors (1) The following people, and no others, are competitors for the purposes of this Act: (a) an Australian citizen, or a permanent resident, who competes, or has been selected to compete, as a representative of Australia in international sporting competition; (b) an Australian citizen, or a permanent resident, who has been assessed by an Australian national sporting organisation as having the potential to represent Australia in international sporting competition; (c) a person who competes as a member of a team in sporting competition (whether held, or to be held, in or outside Australia) at a level at which: (i) teams that represent Australia; or (ii) teams that represent organisations in Australia and contain members who have been assessed by an Australian national sporting organisation as having the potential to represent Australia; in international sporting competition take part; (d) a person who competes in sporting competition and: (i) is receiving support from the Commonwealth or the Commission; or (ii) is a party to an arrangement with the Commonwealth or the Commission under which the person will receive support from the Commonwealth or the Commission; (e) a person who competes in international sporting competition held, or to be held, in Australia; (f) a person who competes in sporting competition at a level that has been assessed by an Australian national sporting organisation as being a level at which people representing Australia could be expected to compete; (g) a person: (i) who has been assessed by a foreign sporting organisation as having reached such a standard of performance in the field of sporting activity in which he or she competes as to be capable of representing in international sporting competition the country of which he or she is a citizen or in which he or she is ordinarily resident; and (ii) in respect of whom the Agency has been requested by a foreign sporting organisation, or is required under a contract with a foreign sporting organisation, to obtain a sample for testing; (h) a non‑Australian in respect of whom the Agency has been requested by, or is required or permitted under a contract with: (i) a foreign sporting organisation in the country of which the person is a citizen or in which the person is ordinarily resident; or (ii) a relevant International Sporting Federation; to obtain a sample for testing; (i) a person in respect of whom the Agency, under an anti‑doping arrangement, is required or permitted to obtain a sample for testing; (j) a person whose name is entered on a Register and who, as a direct or indirect result of having his or her name so entered, is ineligible to take part in sporting competition. (2) Subject to subsection (3), if a person: (a) is training, or has at any time within the last 12 months trained, to compete in sporting competition or international sporting competition, or in sporting competition or international sporting competition at a particular level; or (b) has, at any time within the last 12 months competed in sporting competition or international sporting competition, or in sporting competition or international sporting competition at a particular level; the person is taken for the purposes of subsection (1) to be a person who competes in sporting competition or international sporting competition, or in sporting competition or international sporting competition at that level, as the case may be. (3) A person is taken not to have been a competitor for the purposes of this Act at a particular time if the person: (a) notified the relevant national sporting organisation before that time that he or she had retired from taking part in sporting competition; and (b) has not, since the notification was given, taken part in sporting competition.