Exemption—statements about sports‑related personal services
33 Exemption—statements about sports‑related personal services
For the purposes of this Chapter, if:
a person has provided sports‑related personal services (the athlete services) to one or more Olympians in the person’s capacity as a member of an Olympic team that participated in a Summer or Winter Olympic Games; and
the Games have ended; and
the person makes, or authorises another person to make, a factual statement about the provision of the athlete services; and
the subject matter of the statement is limited to the provision of the athlete services; and
the statement includes a protected olympic expression; and
the statement is applied to sports‑related personal services of the person (the ordinary services) that are the same as, or similar to, the athlete services; and
the application of the statement is for advertising or promotional purposes in relation to the ordinary services, or is likely to enhance the demand for the ordinary services;
the application of the statement is to be disregarded for the purposes of this Chapter.
In this section:
sports‑related personal services means any of the following:
coaching services;
medical or other health services;
dietary consultative services;
psychological or other counselling services;
any similar services designed to maintain or enhance a person’s sporting performance.
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