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South African Boxing Act, 2001 (Act No. 11 of 2001)

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Boxing Regulations, 2004

7. Registration requirements for agents

 

(1) In order to be registered as an agent for the first time, an applicant must undertake and pass a written or oral examination, or both a written and oral examination as the case may be, set by Boxing SA for purposes of testing his or her knowledge of the Act, these Regulations, the code and of boxing generally.

 

(2) Boxing SA shall annually, in the case of an agent's application for the renewal of his or her registration, review his or her application and if Boxing SA is on reasonable grounds of the opinion that the agent has not performed satisfactorily during the previous year, Boxing SA may refuse his or her application for renewal.

 

(3) All foreign boxers engaged to box in the Republic shall be represented by an agent registered under regulation 2 and who permanently resides in the Republic.

 

(4) an agent contemplated in subregulation (3) shall be responsible for—
(a) applying to Boxing SA for certificates of registration for the foreign boxer, his or her manager and seconds;
(b) ensuring that the overseas boxer is in possession of an international boxer's licence or other documentation to the satisfaction of Boxing SA which contains the boxer's current licence status, his boxing record, medical fitness to take part in the proposed bout and containing or accompanied by a certificate or other evidence of authorisation from the boxing commission in his or her country;
(c) attending the weigh-in with the foreign boxer and being at ringside during the bout; and
(d) engaging the services of an interpreter, who shall be available at all material times, if the agent is unable to converse in the language of the foreign boxer or his manager.

 

(5) The provisions of subregulation (4) shall apply, subject to the changes required by the context, to an agent who accompanies a local boxer abroad to participate in a bout.