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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1995 Week 11 Hansard (14 December) . . Page.. 3162 ..

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In order to put into effect the intent of the Act, at the same time as achieving administrative efficiency, I am proposing that the Act be amended to allow for the development of a General Code of Practice for all boxing contests.

This Code would remain a disallowable instrument, but would only need to be tabled once, thus allowing the responsible Minister to approve a boxing contest on the proviso that it is conducted in accordance with the Code, as well of course, as meeting all other requirements of the legislation. This would also negate the necessity to publish individual approved Codes as is currently required.

This new Bill also proposes amendments regarding the sanctioning of kickboxing contests. The Act currently specifies that a person shall not participate in an amateur kickboxing contest unless the contest is sanctioned by the World Kickboxing Association, Australasian Region.

This provision was inserted as an amendment during debate on the passage of the original Bill, and did not recognise that other organisations were legitimately involved in the conduct of kickboxing contests.

The amendment specifies that a list of prospective sanctioning bodies may be formulated, and that this would become a disallowable instrument, thus allowing for proper scrutiny in this Assembly.

In practice I would expect that the list would be based on those organisations which are recognised by the Boxing Authority of New South Wales, and which are allowed to conduct or sanction contests in that state.

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