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HAWKESBURY DISTRICT CRICKET ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED

NSW Districts Cricket Association

Code of Conduct

Code of Conduct

1.1 Applies to all players, officials, office bearers and members of clubs that participate in any affiliated Association competition or fixture or the Inter-Association competitions.

1.2 Applies to all officials, office bearers and members of affiliated Umpires' Associations.

1.3 Applies to any person in 1.1 and 1.2 whether they are on the field or off the field taking part in a match or not.

Rules of the Code

2.1 If the Code applies to a person, he or she must not:

a) assault or attempt to assault an umpire, another players or a spectator; or

b) abuse, either orally or physically, another player, umpire or spectator; or

c) dispute, as distinct from question, an umpire's decision or react in an obviously provocative or disapproving manner towards an umpire, his decision or generally, following an umpiring decision; or

d) use crude and abusive language, or engage in any form of conduct detrimental to the spirit of the game, or likely to bring the game into disrepute; or

e) in any game use crude and abusive hand signals or other gestures; or

f) refuse to supply his full name and registered address, if any, when required by a person eligible to lodge a report.

2.2 The captain of a team may be held responsible for any continuing breaches of the Code by a player in his team, and may be reported for failure to control his team.

Racial and Religious Vilification Code

1. Background

Cricket is a game where polite interaction between participants and with spectators has always been an essential component.

It is part of each captain's role to ensure that the behaviour of players in a team meet the expectations of the community generally and the cricket community in particular. The cricket community is anxious to ensure that people of all ethnic and religious backgrounds enjoy playing and watching the game of cricket.

To facilitate this endeavour and to demonstrate that cricket is in tune with the wider community in opposing racial and religious vilification in all its forms, the Hawkesbury District Cricket Association introduces this Code.

2. Purpose of the Code

The purpose of this Code is to:

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