Challenges to fight and prize fights
8 Challenges to fight and prize fights
Any person who—
makes or accepts, either orally or in writing, any challenge to fight for money; or
engages in a prize fight, is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $750.
Subsection (1) does not apply to a contestant in a professional or public boxing or martial art event, within the meaning of the Boxing and Martial Arts Act 2000, if—
the event is promoted by a person who is licensed or otherwise authorised to act as promoter of the event in accordance with that Act; and
the contestants participating in the event are registered in relation to, or otherwise authorised to participate as contestants in, events of that kind under that Act.
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