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Here is the law (sec 83 of the criminal code)as it stands TODAY:
Eric: Maybe this will help you understand what our petition seeks to do to the current law.
heres the current law.
Prize Fights
Engaging in prize fight 83. (1) Every one who
(a) engages as a principal in a prize fight,
(b) advises, encourages or promotes a prize fight, or
(c) is present at a prize fight as an aid, second, surgeon, umpire, backer or reporter, is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Definition of "prize fight"
(2) In this section, "prize fight" means an encounter or fight with fists or hands between two persons who have met for that purpose by previous arrangement made by or for them, but a boxing contest between amateur sportsmen, where the contestants wear boxing gloves of not less than one hundred and forty grams each in mass, or any boxing contest held with the permission or under the authority of an athletic board or commission or similar body established by or under the authority of the legislature of a province for the control of sport within the province, shall be deemed not to be a prize fight.
R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 83; R.S., 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 186
HERE IS THE SAME LAW REWRITTEN BELOW:
(in capital letters) with an exception for Muay Thai, Kickboxing, and MMA added:
Prize Fights
Engaging in prize fight 83. (1) Every one who
(a) engages as a principal in a prize fight,
(b) advises, encourages or promotes a prize fight, or
(c) is present at a prize fight as an aid, second, surgeon, umpire, backer or reporter, is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Definition of "prize fight"
(2) In this section, "prize fight" means an encounter or fight with fists or hands between two persons who have met for that purpose by previous arrangement made by or for them, but a boxing contest between amateur sportsmen, where the contestants wear boxing gloves of not less than one hundred and forty grams each in mass, OR ANY MUAY THAI, KICKBOXING, MMA or boxing contest held with the permission or under the authority of an athletic board or commission or similar body established by or under the authority of the legislature of a province for the control of sport within the province, shall be deemed not to be a prize fight.
R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 83; R.S., 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 186
the added exception is in capital letters so you can easily spot the slight difference in language that our exception petition calls for in sec 83.
It simply included Muay Thai MMA and kickboxing in the exception to the prize fighting definition.
Those six words added are what is driving the vice commissioner bonkers.
I repeat, they could word it slightly differently as long as we get the same exception to "prize fighting" that BOXING gets.
Is it really that big of a deal? of course not.
dan