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1Short title#
This Act is the Major Sporting Events (Indicia and Images) Protection Amendment Act 2026.
2Commencement#
(1)Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
| Commencement information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. The whole of this Act | The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent. | 19 September 2026 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2)Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3Schedules#
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1 · Amendments
Major Sporting Events (Indicia and Images) Protection Act 2014#
1 Section 4 (paragraph beginning “This Act”)
Omit “identified in the Schedules to this Act”, substitute “prescribed by the rules”.
2 Section 4 (paragraph beginning “A person”)
Omit “or specified in the Schedule to this Act that covers the event”.
3 Section 8 (paragraph beginning “Many”)
Repeal the paragraph.
4 Subsection 9(1)
Omit “(1)”.
5 Subsection 9(1) (definition of authorising body)
Omit “specified as the authorising body in the Schedule to this Act that covers the event”, substitute “prescribed by the rules as the authorising body for the event”.
6 Subsection 9(1) (definition of event body)
Repeal the definition, substitute:
event body, for a major sporting event, means a body prescribed by the rules as an event body for the event.
7 Subsection 9(1) (definition of major sporting event)
Repeal the definition, substitute:
major sporting event means an event that is prescribed by the rules as a major sporting event.
Note: For when a major sporting event may be prescribed by the rules, see Part 2A.
8 Subsection 9(1) (definition of protected indicia)
Omit “specified in, or prescribed by rules made for the purposes of, the Schedule to this Act that covers the event”, substitute “prescribed by the rules for the event”.
9 Subsection 9(1) (definition of protection period)
Omit “determined in accordance with the Schedule to this Act that covers the event”, substitute “prescribed by the rules for the event”.
10 Subsection 9(1) (definition of relate)
Omit “see the Schedule to this Act that covers the event”, substitute “see section 11A”.
11 Subsection 9(2)
Repeal the subsection.
12 After section 11
Insert:
11AWhen protected indicia or images relate to an event body for a major sporting event#
(1)Protected indicia or images for a major sporting event relate to each event body for the event.
(2)However, the rules may prescribe:
(a)that protected indicia and images, or protected indicia or images included in a class of protected indicia or images, do not relate to an event body for a major sporting event; or
(b)the circumstances in which protected indicia or images do not relate to an event body for a major sporting event.
13 After Part 2
Insert:
Part 2A · Major sporting events
Division 1 · Introduction
14ASimplified outline of this Part#
The rules may prescribe an event as a major sporting event.
The Minister must be satisfied of certain matters before rules are made to prescribe an event as a major sporting event under this Part.
Division 2 · Rules may prescribe events as major sporting events
14BMajor sporting events#
The rules may prescribe an event as a major sporting event.
14CRequirements before prescribing an event as a major sporting event#
(1)An event may only be prescribed as a major sporting event under section 14B if the Minister is satisfied that:
(a)the event is of international significance or relates to a sporting movement of international significance; and
(b)prescribing the event is consistent with the objects of this Act.
14DAuthorising body, event bodies etc. for a major sporting event#
(1)For each event prescribed as a major sporting event under section 14B, the rules must prescribe the following:
(a)the authorising body for the event;
(b)the event bodies for the event;
(c)the protected indicia for the event;
(d)the protection period for the event.
(2)For the purposes of paragraph (1)(d), the protection period must not exceed a period which the Minister reasonably considers to be necessary, having regard to the objects of the Act.
14 Section 15 (paragraph beginning “A person”)
Omit “or specified in the Schedule to this Act that covers the event”, substitute “in relation to the event”.
15 Subsection 16(2) (note)
Omit “the Schedule to this Act that covers the event”, substitute “section 11A”.
16 Subsection 16(4) (note 1)
Omit “the Schedule to this Act that covers the event”, substitute “section 11A”.
17 Subsection 16(5)
Omit all the words after “or Territory”, substitute “that is prescribed by the rules in relation to the event”.
18 Paragraph 19(1)(a)
Omit “the Schedule to this Act that covers the event specifies, or”.
19 Subsection 24(1) (note 1)
Omit “the Schedule to this Act that covers the event”, substitute “section 11A”.
20 Subsection 45(4) (note 1)
Omit “the Schedule to this Act that covers the event”, substitute “section 11A”.
21 Subsection 48(6)
Omit all the words after “Territory”, substitute “that is prescribed by the rules in relation to the event”.
22 Subsections 48(7) and (8)
Omit “specified or”.
23 Schedules 1 and 2
Repeal the Schedules.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 25 June 2026
Senate on 1 July 2026]
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