9CCombatants to notify Authority about results of directed examinations

9C Combatants to notify Authority about results of directed examinations

9C Combatants to notify Authority about results of directed examinations

(1) This clause applies if—

(a) a medical practitioner or a qualified person carries out a directed examination of a combatant, and

(b) based on the examination, the medical practitioner or qualified person—

(i) refuses to certify that, in the medical practitioner’s or qualified person’s opinion, the combatant is fit to engage in combat sport, or

(ii) recommends that the combatant not engage in combat sports or sparring for a fixed period or until particular conditions are met.

(2) The combatant must give the Authority written notice, in the approved form, of the refusal or recommendation.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(3) In this clause—

directed examination, of a combatant, means a medical or other examination to which the combatant must submit under a direction given under the Act, section 61.

qualified person has the same meaning as in the Act, section 61.

cl 9C: Ins 2024 No 16, Sch 2[12].