Sports Anti-Doping Act 2003

This Act may be cited as the Sports Anti-Doping Act 2003.

This Act commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

The objects of this Act are—

to protect the health and safety of State athletes by discouraging the use of drugs and doping methods; and

to protect the State’s outstanding sporting reputation; and

to protect the State’s financial investment in sport; and

to recognise community expectations that athletes representing the State or receiving State support compete fairly without the use of drugs or doping methods.

The objects are to be achieved mainly by providing for the State to enter into an agreement with the Commonwealth under which anti-doping testing services, and educational services about doping in sport, are provided for State athletes.

The dictionary in the schedule defines particular words used in this Act.

An expression used in this Act that is also used in the Commonwealth Act has the same meaning in this Act as the expression has in the Commonwealth Act.

The State may enter into an agreement with the Commonwealth to provide for any of the following—

anti-doping testing services for State athletes;

educational services for State athletes about doping in sport;

other matters related to achieving the objects of this Act.

The agreement must support the achievement of the objects of this Act, including, for example, by ensuring that State athletes are tested for the use of drugs or doping methods under the NAD scheme.

This section applies if—

ASADA carries out testing of State athletes under the NAD scheme; and

before asking a State athlete who is under 18 years to supply a sample, or before taking a sample from the State athlete, ASADA seeks the consent of the athlete’s parent or guardian to the sample being supplied or taken.

The consent may be given either generally or in relation to a particular request.Example, for subsection (2), of consent given generally—

Consent given—

at the time the State athlete becomes a member of a State sporting organisation; or

at the time the State athlete registers with a sporting organisation to compete in an open age sporting competition.

The Governor in Council may make regulations under this Act.

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