1. COMMITMENT
1.1 The Coburg Cricket Club (the
“Club”) is committed to an environment which promotes racial and religious
tolerance by prohibiting certain conduct and providing a means of redress for
victims of racial and religious vilification and/or racial
discrimination.
1.2 The Club will ensure that this Policy
is communicated to spectators and participants of the Club.
1.3 Nothing in this Policy prevents a
person lodging a complaint in relation to racial and religious vilification
and/or racial discrimination under the relevant legislation. In the event a
complaint is made under this policy the Club shall ensure that the parties are
informed of their rights.
2. PROHIBITED CONDUCT
2.1 Engaging in Racial and/or Religious
Vilification
No person in his/her capacity as a
spectator or participant in the Club in the course of carrying out his/her
duties or functions as or incidental to being a participant in the Club shall
engage in conduct that offends, humiliates, intimidates, contempts, ridicules,
incites, threatens, disparages, vilifies or insults another person on the basis
of that person's race, religion, colour, descent or national or ethnic
origin.
2.2 Inciting Racial and/or Religious
Vilification
No person in his/her capacity as a
spectator or participant
in the
Club in the course of carrying out his/her duties of functions as or incidental
to being a participant in the Club shall intentionally engage in conduct that
he/she knows is likely to incite hatred against another person, or threaten
physical harm or incite hatred in others to cause physical harm to a person or
to a person's property because of that person's race, religion, colour, descent
or national or ethnic origin.
2.3 Racial and/or Religious
discrimination
No person in his/her capacity as a
spectator or participant in the Club in the course of carrying out his/her
duties or functions as or incidental to being a participant in the Club shall
engage in conduct that discriminates, directly or indirectly against another
person on the basis of that person's race, religion, colour, descent or
national or ethnic origin.
2.4
Victimisation
2.4.1 No person in his/her capacity as
a spectator or participant in the Club in the course of carrying out his/her
duties or functions as or incidental to being a participant in the Club shall
victimise another person.
2.4.2 A person will victimise another
person (the victim) if:
(a) the person subjects or
threatens to subject the victim to any detriment because the victim (or a person
associated with the victim) intends to or has lodged a complaint in
contravention of this Policy; or
(b) the person assists,
requests, induces, encourages or authorises another person to subject the victim
to any detriment because the victim (or a person associated with the victim)
intends to or has lodged a complaint in contravention of this
Policy.
3.1 The Club will appoint a
Committee Member as a Protection Officer to ensure that any breach of this
Policy or complaint received is responded to in an equitable and prompt
manner.
4. CLUB’S LIABILITY
4.1 The Club may be vicariously liable for
conduct engaged in by a participant which if found to have contravened this
Policy, if the Club is unable to establish that it took reasonable precautions
to prevent the participant from engaging in that conduct.
DEFINITIONS
In this Policy-
"Club" means the Coburg Cricket
Club.
“engage in conduct” includes use of the
internet or email
to publish or transmit statements or other material.
"Association" means the Victorian
Sub-District Cricket Association, Premier Cricket (CV), Victorian Womens Cricket Association (VWCA) and North West Metropolatian Cricket Association (NWMCA).
"detriment" includes humiliation and
denigration.
"discrimination" means for the purpose
of this Policy, conduct based on a person's race, religion, colour, descent or
national or ethnic origin. Discrimination may be direct or indirect.
Direct discrimination means treating or proposing to treat
another person less favourably on the basis of a
person’s race, religion, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin.
Indirect discrimination means imposing or intending to impose a
requirement that a person of a particular race, religion, colour, descent or
national or ethnic origin cannot comply with, but which a higher proportion of
people without that attribute (or with a different attribute) can, when it is
not reasonable in the circumstances to do so.
"participant" includes a player, coach,
committee member, volunteer to and agent of the Club that participates in the
Association.
"spectator" is a person that attends a
cricket match or event
conducted by the Club or the Association