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Volume 63, No. 5

60/2020

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

March 24, 2020

B.C. Reg. 60/2020 , deposited March 18, 2020, under the ATHLETIC COMMISSIONER ACT [sections 46 and 48]. Ministerial Order M72/2020, dated March 17, 2020.

I, Lisa Beare, Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, order that the Minister's

Athletic Commissioner Regulation, B.C. Reg. 171/2013, is amended as set out in the

attached Schedule.

— L. BEARE, Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture .

Schedule

Section 1 of the Minister's Athletic Commissioner Regulation, B.C. Reg. 171/2013,

is amended by adding the following definition:

"kickboxing" means a type of mixed martial arts that predominately involves kicking and striking; .

Section 16 (1) (a) (

i) is amended by striking out " or MMA event and " and substituting " or MMA event, and if it is an MMA event whether it is a kickboxing event, and ".

Section 24 is amended

(

a) by repealing subsection (1) and substituting the following:

(1) Subject to the Act and the regulations,

(

a) a mixed martial arts event, other than a kickboxing event, must be carried

out in accordance with the Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports

Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts, as amended from time to time, and

(

b) a kickboxing event must be carried out in accordance with the Association

of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports Unified Rules of Professional Kickboxing,

as amended from time to time. , and

(

b) in subsection (2) by striking out " in the Mixed Martial Arts Uniform Rules of Conduct to " and substituting " in the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts or the Unified Rules of Professional

Kickboxing to ".

Section 29 (1) (

b) is repealed and the following substituted:

(

b) in the case of a boxing event, tape and gauze as required under the rules

referred to in

section 23 [rules for boxing events] ;

(b.1) in the case of a mixed martial arts event that is not a kickboxing event,

tape and gauze as required under the rules referred to in

section 24 (1) (b) [rules for MMA event] ;

(b.2) in the case of a kickboxing event, tape and gauze; .

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