Integrity Sport and Recreation Act 2023

Powers, investigations, and disciplinary panels - Disciplinary panels

41: Commission may establish disciplinary panel

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"The Commission can create a group to decide punishments for breaking sport rules"

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The Commission can set up a disciplinary panel if an integrity code says they can. You might wonder what this panel does - it looks at whether someone has broken an integrity code or an organisation's policy, and decides what should happen to them if they have. The panel's job is to figure out if a breach happened and what the punishment should be.

The people on the disciplinary panel are chosen according to the rules in the integrity code. This means that each code can say who should be on the panel and how they should be chosen.

The disciplinary panel cannot deal with issues between an employer and employee about their job contract, or disputes about how the contract works. The Commission must make sure the disciplinary panel works independently from the people who investigate possible breaches under sections 31 and 32.

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40: No victimisation in relation to making complaint or providing information to Commission, or

"You can't be treated unfairly for complaining or giving information to the Commission"

42: Powers and procedure of disciplinary panel, or

"What a disciplinary panel can do to make a decision"

Part 4Powers, investigations, and disciplinary panels
Disciplinary panels

41Commission may establish disciplinary panel

If provided for in an integrity code, the Commission may establish a disciplinary panel to consider and determine whether an integrity code, or an organisation’s policy made under an integrity code, has been breached by a participant and the sanction to be imposed for the breach.
The composition of the disciplinary panel must be as prescribed in the relevant integrity code.
A disciplinary panel does not have jurisdiction to deal with any matter arising between an employer and the employer’s employee concerning the terms and conditions of the employee’s employment, a dispute about the interpretation, application, or operation of an employment agreement, or a personal grievance.
The Commission must ensure that the disciplinary panel function is performed independently from its function of conducting investigations under sections 31 and 32.