1. In pursuing its aims, the New Zealand Sportclimbing
Federation Inc. condemns the use of performance enhancing drugs and doping
practices in sport as contrary to the ethics of sport and potentially
harmful to the health of competitors.
2. The New Zealand Sportclimbing Federation Inc. will
support the development of national and international initiatives to deter
the use of performance-enhancing drugs and doping practices.
3. The New Zealand Sportclimbing Federation Inc. aims to
deter the use of performance-enhancing drugs and doping practices in sport
by:
5. The New Zealand Sportclimbing Federation Inc. recognises
the NZSDA, its agents, any anti-doping authority contracted by NZSDA,
other national anti-doping agencies and international sports organisations
as agencies responsible for conducting doping controls on competitors for
testing in or out of competition, whether in New Zealand or overseas.
6. The New Zealand Sportclimbing Federation Inc. will abide
by the following core principles within their anti-doping policies:
 | The
New Zealand Sportclimbing Federation Inc. condemns
performance-enhancing drugs and doping methods in sport and will ban
every participant or member found to have been using such methods. |
| The
New Zealand Sportclimbing Federation Inc. will enforce its anti-doping
policy. This will not preclude the New Zealand Sportclimbing
Federation Inc. from conducting joint hearings with other
responsible organisations into alleged doping offences. |
| The
anti-doping policies apply to all members of the New Zealand
Sportclimbing Federation Inc. and also to the members of the New
Zealand Sportclimbing Federation Inc. members where these are not
natural persons (such as affiliates or clubs). |
| That
the New Zealand Sportclimbing Federation Inc. anti-doping policies
includes all prohibited substances and methods, as specified by the
NZSDA in its Schedule and by the international federations. |
| A
“doping offence” is committed whenever a prohibited substances and
method is used or found to have been used. |
| This
anti-doping policies establish an obligation on the part of the
sport’s athletes, coaches, officials, medical personnel and other
persons not to use prohibited substances and methods and for athletes
to undergo testing when required to do so. |
| The
New Zealand Sportclimbing Federation Inc. recognises the NZSDA and any
other appropriate testing authorities and/or procedures for the
purposes of requesting, collecting and analysing samples to detect the
possible use of doping substances or methods both in and out of
competition. |
| The
New Zealand Sportclimbing Federation Inc. will apply sanctions in
relation to doping offences including a minimum two-year suspension
for a first offence and a life suspension for a second offence
involving use of a serious doping substance or method. |
| The
New Zealand Sportclimbing Federation Inc. where allowed by the NZSDA
or relevant international federation, anti-doping policies provide for
athletes to obtain prior medical approval from a body appointed for
that purpose for the conditional use of prohibited substances for
therapeutic purposes. |
| On
receipt of notification by a recognised anti-doping testing authority
of a positive finding, a refusal to undergo a test or other possible
infringement or breach of the policy, The New Zealand Sportclimbing
Federation Inc. will conduct an investigation and or hearings in
respect to the alleged doping offences and issue a notice of its
decisions. |
| The
New Zealand Sportclimbing Federation Inc. will permit appeals in
respect to its decisions. An appeal may be made to the New Zealand
Sportclimbing Federation Inc., a tribunal or the courts. |
| Matters
in relation to alleged doping offences are to be kept confidential
until after alleged doping offences have been heard and determined. |
| Where
the athlete has indicated retirement when asked to undergo an
out-of-competition drugs test, this will not preclude completion of
collection and testing of a sample from the retiree or the following
of procedures if the test is positive. If the athlete has indicated
retirement and refuses to undergo an out-of-competition drugs test, or
fails to follow the required procedures if the test is positive, then
the athlete may not comeback from retirement. |
| The
New Zealand Sportclimbing Federation Inc. will enforce sanctions
imposed by other recognised sports authorities, including
international federations and other national sports organisations. |
| The
New Zealand Sportclimbing Federation Inc. anti-doping policies also
applies to junior, veteran and disabled athletes. |
| The New Zealand Sportclimbing Federation Inc. may
provide details of their athletes, and other information relevant to
the policy and its application, to other authorities who need to know
about the matter. |
