Sports and the Law | Assignment

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Question 1
There are a number of factors that make the Rugby Australian’s Gender Identity
Dispensation Procedure and Disability Dispensation Procedure comply with the Australian law.
This is because in the two sets of law and procedures, the safety of Australians is the most basic
consideration in all decisions that supersedes all considerations (Rugby Australia, 2019). Like
the Australian law ensures that every individual is included in every process, the Rugby
Australia’s Gender Identity and Disability Dispensation Procedures ensure that they are
inclusive, safe, and fair for every rugby participant.
Under this aspect, the Australian rugby procedures as well as the Australian law make
efforts to ensure that rugby participants and Australian citizens respectively are well represented
and compatible in terms of physical development and in their experience and ability to play with
and compete against each other (Byrne, 2019). Both the participation policy as well as the
Australian law ensure that rugby players’ and Australian citizens’ gender, age grades, as well
disability aspects are covered (Rugby Australia, 2019). For instance, in the gender identity and
disability dispensation procedures all players who are barely 16 and 17 years are not allowed to
compete in senior games due to their physical experience, maturity, and development.
However, the senior dispensation procedure is at times followed whereby players aged 18
years old are allowed to participate in senior rugby. This is in cases whereby the physical
maturity and development matches that of the seniors. In addition to this, the rugby gender
identity procedure complies with the Australian law since it ensures that the players are evenly
distributed within the team in terms of gender (Rugby Australia, 2019). Girls are given an equal

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opportunity in the team. Players with intellectual and physical disability are given an opportunity
in the team which is compliant to the Australian law.
Question 2
In Australia, some of the sports organizations are incorporated in under the corporations
act while other under the association’s incorporation. It is important to note that there is no
specific requirement for Australian sporting clubs to be incorporated (Queensland Guide, 2018).
There are numerous advantages of incorporating sporting clubs under either association’s act or
under the corporations act. One of the main benefit of the procedure is that it gives members of
the clubs a guarantee of limited liability. Besides, sporting clubs in Australia that are not
registered under either of the two acts are not considered legal within the law. As a result,
sporting clubs in Australia that are not registered do not have the capacity to enter into contracts
(The Sports Law Review, 2019). Therefore, registered sporting clubs in the country are at an
advantage. The association’s incorporation as well as the corporation act does provide specific
rules that are in compliance with the law. In addition to this, the reporting and management
requirements in the two acts are similar.
There are a number of factors that are required of the sporting clubs incorporated under
the associations and corporations act. All these sporting clubs under the two bodies are required
to manage the clubs under an established committee which have board of directors (The Sports
Law Review, 2019). From this, it is evident that there are no specific requirements that are
needed to determine the form of incorporation of the sporting clubs in Australia (Queensland
Guide, 2018). As a result, it could be said that the clubs are randomly incorporated under the
bodies based on open distribution. Australian Football League (AFL) is one of the sporting club