I UNDERSIGNED: {name}
HEREBY APPLY for a Motorcycling Australia Limited (MA) licence and membership. IN CONSIDERATION OF my licence/membership application being accepted. I acknowledge and agree that.
Waiver Agreement Recitals
A. MA permits successful Applicants to participate in Recreational Activity in consideration for the Applicant paying the Application Fee or if applying to be a volunteer official, volunteering to officiate at a Recreational Activity and otherwise agreeing to be bound by MA’s rules and directives governing the conduct of Recreational Activity.
B. This document is the contract between MA and the Applicant with respect to the Applicant’s participation in Recreational Activity.
C. The purposes of this contract include to: a.exclude the liability of MA to the extent permissible by law to pay damages or any other form of compensation whether arising in tort contract or statute or at law or in equity for any personal injury or death of the Applicant as a result of the Applicant’s participation in Recreational Activity; and b.provide a warning of the risks of engaging in Recreational Activity (as defined below).
D. Participating in Recreational Activity is dangerous. The risks include but are not limited to death, serious injury or illness due to:
• falling from your bike;
• difficult terrain and obstacles;
• hazardous and changeable track conditions;
• rider error and/or lack of skill or care and/or dangerous or reckless behaviour on your part or the part of other participants; • undisclosed medical conditions;
• decisions made or not made by organisers, officials, landowners/track operators and any agents or representatives of those in charge of meetings;
• heat, cold, wet or other adverse weather conditions;
• contact with vehicles, other participants or members of the public who may or may not be acting safely;
• lack of access to medical, evacuation or search services; or
• design of the track.
Operative parts
1.In consideration for me (the Applicant) paying or providing the consideration under clause A above to participate in Recreational Activity, MA will permit me to participate in Recreational Activity.
2.I acknowledge that Recreational Activity involves the risk of serious injury, physical harm or death. I warrant that I am aware that Recreational Activity involves the risk of serious injury, physical harm or death.
3.I also acknowledge that in signing this contract I have done so voluntarily and that no pressure or unfair tactics have been used to persuade me to sign this contract and that I have done so voluntarily in the knowledge that it is open to me not to sign the contract and for MA to refuse to permit me to participate in Recreational Activity. I also warrant that I have been given sufficient opportunity to read this contract before signing it and that I have read it.
4.I agree that MA and any directors or officers of MA and any person associated with organising Recreational Activity shall not be liable to me or any other person for damages, compensation or loss, whether in tort, contract, under statute or at law or in equity or otherwise for any personal injury or death caused by, or in connection with, or arising out of, my participation in Recreational Activity. - reasonably fit for any particular purpose or might reasonably be expected to achieve any result you have made known to the supplier.
Definitions
Applicant means the person signing this form or on whose behalf a parent or guardian is signing this form and whose name appears next to Applicant below. Application Fee means the fee payable by the Applicant to participate in Recreational Activity. MA means Motorcycling Australia Limited ABN 83 057 830 083 Recreational Activity means any motorcycling event organised or permitted by MA.
Applicant acknowledgements, consents and authorisations
i. I acknowledge that it is my responsibility to only participate in Recreational Activity if I am fit and able to do so.
ii. I acknowledge that I am responsible for all medical, hospital and ambulance expenses arising out of my participation in Recreational Activity save for any benefits provided by MA’s Personal Accident Policy.
iii. I authorise and consent to MA arranging any medical, hospital or ambulance services on my behalf if necessary arising out of my participation in Recreational Activity.
iv. I authorise and consent to MA collecting and using my personal information for the purpose of administering Recreational Activity and in accordance with the MA Privacy Policy.
v. I authorise and consent to MA collecting my private health information from me and from any person or entity providing me with medical, hospital or ambulance services arising out of my participation in Recreational Activity, and to the use of such information to reduce the risks to persons participating in recreational activities, in accordance with the MA Privacy Policy.
vi. I acknowledge that I have agreed to, and am bound by, MA’s rules and directives governing the conduct of Recreational Activity, including the MA anti‐doping policy and understand that I may be subject to drug testing.
vii. I authorise and consent to photographs and electronic images (images) being taken of me in the course of Recreational Activity. I have no proprietary interest in the images. I authorise and consent to MA using such images, my name and information about my participation in Recreational Activity to promote MA or any recreational activities permitted by MA.
Additional Clauses for Victorian Applicants
SCHEDULE 2
WARNING: If you participate in these activities your rights to sue the supplier under the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012 if you are killed or injured because the activities were not supplied with due care and skill or were not reasonably fit for their purpose, are excluded, restricted or modified in the way set out in or on this notice.
NOTE: The change to your rights, as set out in or on this notice, does not apply if your death or injury is due to gross negligence on the supplier's part. Gross negligence, in relation to an act or omission, means doing the act or omitting to do an act with reckless disregard, with or without consciousness, for the consequences of the act or omission. See regulation 5 of the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Regulations 2012 and section 22(3)(b) of the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012.
SCHEDULE 3
WARNING UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN CONSUMER LAW AND FAIR TRADING ACT 2012 Under the Australian Consumer Law (Victoria), several statutory guarantees apply to the supply of certain goods and services. These guarantees mean that the supplier named on this form is required to ensure that the recreational services it supplies to you:
are rendered with due care and skill; and
are reasonably fit for any purpose which you, either expressly or by implication, make known to the supplier; and
might reasonably be expected to achieve any result you have made known to the supplier.
Under section 22 of the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012, the supplier is entitled to ask you to agree that these statutory guarantees do not apply to you. If you sign this form, you will be agreeing that your rights to sue the supplier under the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012 if you are killed or injured because the services provided were not in accordance with these guarantees, are excluded, restricted or modified in the way set out in this form.
NOTE: The change to your rights, as set out in this form, does not apply if your death or injury is due to gross negligence on the supplier's part. Gross negligence, in relation to an act or omission, means doing the act or omitting to do an act with reckless disregard, with or without consciousness, for the consequences of the act or omission. See regulation 5 of the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Regulations 2012 and section 22(3) (b) of the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012.