Industry participants
6 Industry participants
In this Act, industry participant means any of the following persons, whether or not they are employed or engaged on a full-time basis and whether or not they receive payment or other consideration for the activity concerned—
an individual who acts on behalf of a promoter to arrange combat sport contests between particular combatants (a match-maker),
a person who undertakes to represent the interests of a combatant in procuring the engagement of the combatant in a combat sport contest or who directs or controls the combat sport activities of any combatant (a manager),
an individual who does any of the following (a trainer)—
supervises the training or instruction of a combatant or who accompanies a combatant into or onto the contest area to give advice or assistance during a combat sport contest,
assists a combatant under the supervision or on the advice of a person mentioned in subparagraph (i),
assists a person mentioned in subparagraph (i) in the preparation of combatants,
(Repealed)
an individual who determines the points scored by each combatant in a combat sport contest (a judge),
an individual who enforces the rules relating to a combat sport during the combat sport contest (a referee),
an individual who regulates the number and length of rounds, and the interval between rounds, of a combat sport contest (a timekeeper),
any other individual of a class of persons prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition,
but does not include a promoter.
A class of persons may be prescribed for the purposes of subsection (1) if it consists of persons engaged in or employed in a profession, occupation or business in relation to a combat sport.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed by the regulations
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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