Hockey Australia

2025 Hockey Australia National Registration Terms and Conditions

Your application for membership will be considered and may be accepted or rejected in accordance with the relevant AHO's governing rules. In consideration of Your application for membership of the AHO, You agree to the following terms and conditions:

 

Definitions

1.       In these terms and conditions, the following words have the corresponding meaning:

(a)       Activity means participating in any capacity in any hockey match, competition, event, or activity (including training), whether on a one-off basis or as part of a series, league, or competition, which is sanctioned or organised by a Relevant Organisation, including but not limited to participation as a player, coach, support personnel, official or administrator.

(b)       Australian Hockey Organisation (AHO), which means and includes Hockey Australia, Member Associations, Regional Associations and Clubs.

(c)       Club means any hockey club which is a member of, or affiliate to a Regional Association or Member Association that enters a player or a team to participate in an Activity.

(d)       Hockey Australia (HA) means Hockey Australia Limited (ACN 088 988 836).

(e)       Member Association (MA) means each state and territory member of Hockey Australia recognised under the Hockey Australia Constitution.

(f)        National Integrity Framework (NIF) means the Hockey Australia National Integrity Framework consisting of the following five (5) policies:

a.         Safeguarding Children and Young People Policy

b.        Member Protection Policy;

c.         Competition Manipulation and Sport Gambling Policy;

d.        Improper Use of Drugs and Medicine Policy; and

e.         Complaints, Disputes and Discipline Policy

subject to amendment from time to time and made available at www.hockey.org.au/integrity.

(g)       Participant means a person who is registered, or entitled to participate, in an Australian Hockey Organisation Activity

(h)       Regional Association means those regional or metropolitan hockey associations which are members of, or affiliated to a Member Association.

(i)         Rules mean all rules, regulations, by-laws and policies of the relevant Australian Hockey Organisation, including but not limited to the:

a.         Relevant AHO’s constitution;

b.        Hockey Australia National Integrity Framework;

c.         Hockey Australia Code of Conduct;

d.        Hockey Australia Social Media Policy; and

e.         Hockey Australia Concussion Policy

subject to amendment from time to time and made available at www.hockey.org.au/integrity or as made available by the relevant AHO.

(j)         You, Your or Yourself means you, and any child or young person under 18 upon whose behalf you register with an Australian Hockey Organisation, and accept these terms and conditions, where the context so permits.

Compliance with Rules

2.       You commit to safeguarding all Participants, particularly children and young people, from harmful behaviours such as abuse, bullying, harassment, discrimination, grooming, and other forms of misconduct. You are expected to report any incidents or concerns promptly.

3.       You agree to be bound by and comply with all Rules, directions, determinations, and decisions made by the relevant AHO.

4.       You acknowledge and accept that breaching any Rules may result in disciplinary action.

5.       Without limiting the application of any relevant Rules or any right to terminate Your membership under the AHO's governing rules, the AHO may terminate your membership registration at any time, including if your participation or behaviour interferes with any other Participant's safety or enjoyment of hockey, subject to any requirements of the AHO's constitution.

6.       You accept responsibility for familiarising yourself with the Rules and any updates, as well as additional Rules adopted by the relevant AHO and communicated to You in the future.

7.       HA will provide educational resources to assist Participants in understanding their obligations under the National Integrity Framework and other Rules. Visit www.hockey.org.au/integrity  for more information.

Reporting Obligations

8.       You agree that if you see, hear, or experience any suspicious or unwelcome activity, or any integrity issues or concerns, including but not limited to child safety, abuse, harassment, bullying, match-fixing or doping, you must report it through one of the following channels:

·       Email: integrity@hockey.org.au

·       Online: https://hockeyaustralia.stoplinereport.com

·       Phone: 1300 30 45 50

·       Child Safeguarding and Discrimination complaints can be lodged directly to Sport Integrity Australia online at https://www.sportintegrity.gov.au/contact-us/make-an-integrity-complaint-or-report

Assumption of Risk

9.       There are risks associated with participation in Activities, and accidents can and do happen, which may result in personal injury, death, or property damage. You should ensure You are aware of all risks involved, including those associated with any health condition You may have. You acknowledge, understand, and accept all risks involved in Your participation in Activities.

10.   You consent to receive any medical treatment that an AHO reasonably considers necessary or desirable for You during your participation in Activities if you cannot make a rational decision about your consent at the time. You also agree to reimburse the relevant AHO for any costs or expenses incurred in providing you with such medical treatment.

Disclosure of medical conditions

11.   You warrant that prior to undertaking any Activities You are:

a.         and must continue to be medically and physically fit and able to undertake and participate in Activities; and

b.        not a danger to Yourself or to the health and safety of others.

12.   You acknowledge that You must not participate in any Activities if you have any preexisting medical or other condition that may affect the risk that either You or any other person will suffer injury, loss or damage.

13.   You acknowledge that AHOs rely on information provided by You and that all such information is accurate and complete.

14.   You agree to report any accidents, injuries, loss or damage You suffer during any Activities to the relevant AHO before You leave any relevant venue in the manner required by the relevant AHO.

Privacy and Use of Personal Information

15.    The personal information that the AHO collects from You may be used and disclosed for the purposes set out in the HA Privacy Policy available at www.hockey.org.au/integrity and the privacy policy of the AHO, if any, including administering and marketing competitions, activities and other events; and the provision of hockey-related information and communication from AHOs.

16.   You may opt out of your email being used for communication purposes by contacting the AHO and/or managing your communication preferences online.

17.   The AHO may use third parties (such as IT providers, venue operators or survey providers) to collect your personal information or give them your information to help run hockey, as required by law. The AHO will always act in accordance with the Australian Hockey Privacy Policy and its privacy policy, if any.

18.   Subject to applicable Rules (including the HA Privacy Policy), You consent to photographs and video captured, recorded and livestreamed during your participation in any Activities and to AHOs using your name, image and likeness in any form or medium for:

a.         general marketing and promotional activities related to hockey in Australia; or

b.        the administration of hockey in Australia (e.g., to assist in identifying and investigating prohibited conduct under the NIF or for use in disciplinary proceedings, including tribunal hearings)

in each case without your further consent being necessary.

19.   If you do not wish to consent to your name, image and likeness being used for general marketing and promotional activities related to hockey in Australia, please notify the relevant AHO.

20.   An AHO may apply additional terms and conditions in relation to your registration, including, but not limited to, the collection of your personal information.

21.   Where there is any overlap between these terms and conditions and additional terms applied by an AHO in accordance with clause 18, the additional terms prevail to the extent of the inconsistency.

Insurance and Membership Cancellation

22.   You become entitled to a level of insurance protection as detailed at www.hockey.org.au/play/registration-and-insurance. This coverage is limited and does not include all potential risks. You are strongly encouraged to review your personal insurance needs to ensure comprehensive protection while participating in Activities.

23.   Subject to any requirements of the AHO's constitution, you must notify the AHO in writing if you wish to cancel your registration. Following the AHO's confirmation to you of your registration cancellation, you will have no entitlement to the benefits that attach to Participants.

24.   Refunds will only be provided in the circumstances set out in the HA Refund Policy.

Parent/Guardian Declaration

Where the applicant is under 18 years of age the below must be acknowledged by the applicant’s parent or legal guardian: 

You authorise and consent to the applicant registering and participating in Activities. In consideration of the applicant's membership to the AHO being accepted, You expressly agree to be responsible for the applicant's behaviour and agree to accept, in your capacity as parent or guardian, the terms set out in this membership declaration. In addition, You agree to be bound by and to comply with the Rules and all other rules, regulations, by-laws and policies of the AHO.

Hockey Victoria

Hockey Victoria (HV) registered members agree to comply with Hockey Australia (HA) registration terms and conditions (HA terms) and policies, along with the terms and conditions below and relevant HV policies which can be accessed here.

Terms & Conditions

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT APPLICATION.  YOU SHOULD READ IT CAREFULLY BEFORE SIGNING IT. BY AGREEING TO THIS APPLICATION AND DECLARATION, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND AND AGREED TO THE BELOW TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

These terms and conditions (terms) must be read carefully. In consideration of your application for membership of HV being accepted you acknowledge and agree to the following terms:

1. Definitions: In these terms:

Affiliate has the same meaning as in the HV Constitution and where the context permits, means the Affiliate in which you apply to become a member.

Claim means and includes any action, suit, proceeding, claim, demand, damage, penalty, cost, or expense however arising from or in connection with any Hockey Activities including negligence.

Hockey Activities means performing or participating in any capacity, including as a member, in any authorised or recognised Hockey Organisation activity.

Hockey Organisation means and includes HA, HV and Affiliates and where the context so permits, their respective directors, officers, members, servants, or agents.

HV means Hockey Victoria Incorporated (ABN 66 215 250 461).

2. Rules of registration and participation: By agreeing to these terms, you will become a member of the nominated Affiliate and HV. You acknowledge, agree and consent to becoming a member of the Hockey Organisations. Upon becoming a member of HV and the relevant Affiliate, the relevant Hockey Organisations’ Constitutions will comprise a series of contracts between you and the relevant Hockey Organisation, and you will be bound by them and any by-laws, policies or codes of conduct made under them. You submit to any disciplinary measures taken against you and will take any appeals and litigation before the authorities provided for in the relevant Constitutions and by-laws. You will pay on demand the prescribed or stated fees for the Hockey Activities and/or for affiliation with HV and the Affiliate. Such fees may be notified to you verbally, in writing (for example, including but not limited to through the registration system process) or by notice displayed in the relevant Hockey Organisation’s premises. You acknowledge that your HV membership application is subject to you having paid all relevant annual membership fees to HV and Affiliates.

3. Risk Warning and Waiver (As referenced in Section 5 of the 2024 HA terms):

4. Waiver: A supplier of recreational services or recreational activities can ask you to agree that statutory guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law (which is Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)) do not apply to you (or a person for whom or on whose behalf you are acquiring the services or activities).

If you agree to these terms and conditions, you will be agreeing that your rights (or the rights of a person for whom or on whose behalf you are acquiring the services) to sue the supplier in relation to recreational services or recreational activities that you undertake because the services or recreational activities provided were not in accordance with the guarantees are excluded, restricted or modified as set out below.

5. For recreational services or recreational activities to which the Australian Consumer Law (Commonwealth) applies: By agreeing to these terms and conditions, you agree that the liability of the Hockey Organisations in relation to recreational services (as that term is defined in the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) and the Australian Consumer Law) for any:

(i)  death.

(ii) physical or mental injury (including the aggravation, acceleration, or recurrence of such an injury).

(iii) the contraction, aggravation, or acceleration of a disease; or

(iv) the coming into existence, the aggravation, acceleration or recurrence of any other condition, circumstance, occurrence, activity, form of behaviour, course of conduct or state of affairs:

(A) that is or may be harmful or disadvantageous to you or the community; or

(B) that may result in harm or disadvantage to you or the community, that may be suffered by you (or a person for whom or on whose behalf you are acquiring the services) resulting from the supply of recreational services or recreational activities,

is excluded and the application of any express or implied term that any services will be provided with due care and skill is hereby excluded.

For recreational services to which the Australian Consumer Law (Victoria) applies: Warning under the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012 (Vic): 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 in this application and declaration, the Hockey Organisations, are required to ensure that the recreational services it supplies to you:

i. are rendered with due care and skill;

ii. are reasonably fit for any purpose which you either expressly or by implication, make known to the supplier; and

iii. 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 (Vic), the supplier is entitled to ask you to agree that these conditions do not apply to you. If you agree to these terms and conditions, you will be agreeing that your rights to sue the supplier under the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012 (Vic) if you are killed or injured because the services were not in accordance with these guarantees, are excluded, restricted or modified in the way set out in this application and declaration.

Note: The change to your rights, as set out in this membership application and declaration, 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 (Vic) and section 22(3)(b) of the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012 (Vic).

Exclusion of rights under the Australian Consumer Law (Victoria): By agreeing to these terms, you agree that the liability of the Hockey Organisations for any death or personal injury (as defined in the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012 (Vic)) that may be suffered by you (or a person from whom or on whose behalf you are acquiring the services) resulting from the supply of recreational services is excluded.

6. Release & Indemnity: In consideration of the relevant Hockey Organisations accepting your membership application you, to the extent permitted by law:(i) release and forever discharge HV and the Affiliate from all Claims that you may have or may have had but for this release arising from or in connection with your membership and/or your participation in the Hockey Activities.

(ii) release and indemnify the Hockey Organisations against any Claim which may be made by you or on your behalf for or in respect of or arising out of your death whether caused by the negligence or breach of contract by any Hockey Organisation or in any other manner whatsoever; and

(iii) indemnify and will keep indemnified and hold harmless the Hockey Organisations to the extent permitted by law in respect of any Claim by any person:

(A) arising as a result of or in connection with your membership or undertaking the Hockey Activities; and

(B) against any Hockey Organisation in respect of any injury, loss or damage arising out of or in connection with your failure to comply with HV’s rules and/or directions, save that the above releases and indemnities shall not apply to the extent that the loss, damage, or injury that is the subject of the Claim is caused or contributed to by the grossly negligent act or omission of a Hockey Organisation.

7. Insurance (As referenced in Section 7 of the 2024 HA terms.)

8. Disclosure of Medical Conditions (As referenced in Section 5 and 6 of the 2024 HA terms.)

9. Consent to Medical Treatment: If you suffer any injury or illness, you agree that a relevant Hockey Organisation may provide evacuation, first aid and/or medical treatment at your expense and that your acceptance of these terms and conditions constitutes your consent to such evacuation, first aid and/or medical treatment. You agree to reimburse the relevant Hockey Organisation for any costs or expenses incurred in providing such medical treatment.

10. Exclusion of Applicant (As referenced in Section 1 of the 2024 HA terms.)

11. Safety (As referenced in Section 5 of the 2024 HA terms.)

12. Prevailing conditions: You acknowledge and agree that:

(i) some Hockey Activities may be affected by the weather which may change without warning; and

(ii) in such activities, there can be an element of the “luck of the prevailing conditions” when undertaking the Hockey Activities over which the Hockey Organisations have no control.

13. Bar to proceedings: A Hockey Organisation may plead these terms as a bar to proceedings now or in the future commenced by or on behalf of you or by any person claiming through you. Where you seek to commence proceedings against a Hockey Organisation, you:

(i) will commence those proceedings in the courts of the jurisdiction in which any incident occurs;

(ii) waive any right to object to the exercise of such jurisdiction;

(iii) will, where you seek to commence proceedings in another jurisdiction from where any incident occurs, consent (if required by a Hockey Organisation) to move those proceedings to the jurisdiction in which any incident occurs including consenting to any application made by a Hockey Organisation to remove the proceedings to the jurisdiction in which any incident occurs;

(iv) will pay the costs of any application made by any one or more Hockey Organisation under paragraph

(v) above and will consent to any application for security of costs made at any time by any one or more Hockey Organisation; and

(vi) consent to paying the legal defence costs of the proceedings (on a solicitor client basis) of any Hockey Organisation where the Hockey Organisation(s) successfully defend the proceedings.

15. Use of Image: (As referenced in Section 9 of the 2024 HA terms).

16. Privacy: You understand that the personal information you have provided in your membership  application is necessary for the conduct and management of the Hockey Activities and other related activities across Victoria, and that it is collected, used, disclosed, and stored in accordance with HV’s Privacy Policy.

17. Non-transferable: A right to be a member of HV (if granted) is non-transferable to other people. Any attempt to transfer to another person without the knowledge of HV may result in the cancellation of any rights granted by the Hockey Organisation without refund and you may not be permitted to participate in further Hockey Activities or programs. You also accept that fees paid for membership of HV are non-refundable.

18. Entire agreement: These terms (and the documents included in them and to which they refer) constitute the entire agreement between the parties in respect to the Hockey Activities and supersedes all other agreements, understandings and representations and negotiations with any Hockey Organisation in relation to the Hockey Activities. To the extent that any clause of these terms is void or unenforceable it is severable and does not affect the remaining provisions of these terms.

19. Governing Law: The governing law of this application and declaration is the law of the State of Victoria. You irrevocably and unconditionally consent and submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria and waive any right to object to the exercise of such jurisdiction.

20. Warranty: You warrant that all information provided is true and correct. You acknowledge this application and declaration cannot be amended. If you amend this application, it may be null and void and may not be accepted by the Hockey Organisation.

21. Statement of Understanding: You have read or have had read to you the above terms and conditions and having understood the same, you consent to the activities proposed.

22. Financial Declaration: In applying for membership of HV, you acknowledge and declare that you have paid all relevant fees to HV and your Affiliate. HV may, and reserves the right to, decline any membership application from an individual who has not paid any outstanding fees to HV or an Affiliate.

Declaration

In order to proceed, you must have read and agreed to the terms and conditions of membership contained in this application and declaration. By accepting these terms and conditions, you declare that you have read, understood, acknowledge, and agree to the terms and conditions of membership including the exclusion of implied terms, warning, assumption of risk, release and indemnity. By accepting this application and declaration, you agree that if your application for membership is accepted, you will be bound by these terms and conditions.

***Where the applicant is under 18 years of age this application and declaration must also be accepted by the applicant’s parent or legal guardian:

As parent or guardian of the applicant for membership, you authorise and consent to him/her participating in the Hockey Activities and being granted membership of HV. In consideration of this application being accepted, you expressly agree to be responsible for the applicant’s behaviour and agree to accept in your capacity as parent or guardian, the terms set out in the membership application and declaration, including the provision by you of a release and indemnity in the terms set out above. Further, you have read, understood, acknowledge and agree to, and have fully explained to the applicant, the terms and effect of this application and declaration, including the warning, exclusion of implied terms, release and indemnity. You acknowledge that the applicant has read the application and declaration and together with your explanation the applicant has, to the best of your belief, understood the terms and effect of the application and declaration, including the warning, exclusion of implied terms, release, and indemnity.

 

 

 

 

Southern United Hockey Club

I agree to the SUHC Code of Behaviour.

SUHC club endorses the HV / HA Codes of Behaviour. Every person in the Victorian Hockey Community has the right to participate in an environment which is safe, welcoming and inclusive. Equally every player, coach, official, spectator and administrator plays a part in ensuring their actions and behaviours are supportive of these values.

Click Here for HA’s Codes of Behaviour

Subject to applicable Rules, I consent to photographs, video, electronic and other forms of images being taken of you during your participation in any Hockey Activities and using your name or image (including photographs) in any form or medium for general marketing and promotional activities related to the club without your further consent being necessary. If you do not wish to consent to your name and image being used please notify the club secretary@suhc.com.au