(1) These regulations may be cited as the Boxing and Wrestling Regulations 1958.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the seventh day after the date of their notification in the Gazette.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(1) Every application for a permit to hold a contest shall be in writing, signed by a responsible officer of the club making the application, and shall state:

• (a) the full name and address of the club:

• (b) the date and hour when it is proposed to hold the contest:

• (c) the place where the contest is to be held:

• (d) the name of the person to control the contest as referee:

• (e) in the case of a professional contest, the full name of every person to take part therein as a competitor.

(2) Every application shall be made at least 7 days before the date on which it is proposed to hold the contest:

provided that a commissioned officer of Police may, if he thinks fit, entertain an application made at any time.

(1) The commissioned officer of Police dealing with any such application may require such evidence as he thinks fit that the applicant is an approved club, or relating to the persons to take part in the contest, or as to the conduct and control of the contest.

(2) The granting or withholding of a permit shall be in the absolute discretion of the said commissioned officer.

Every permit shall be in the form set out in Schedule 1 or to the effect thereof, and shall authorise the holding of the contest under the control of the club named at the time and place stated therein, and, in the case of a professional contest, between the competitors named therein, and not otherwise:

provided that any commissioned officer of Police may, if he thinks fit, alter the permit at any time before the contest, and the permit shall operate accordingly.

Every permit to hold a boxing contest shall be deemed to be granted subject to the following conditions:

• (a) the contest shall be conducted in a ring not less than 4.90 m nor more than 6.10 m square, and approved by a commissioned or non-commissioned officer of Police:

• (b) the ring shall be enclosed by at least 3 horizontal tightly stretched ropes so placed as to provide approximately equal distances between the ropes, and the top rope shall be cased in leather or other appropriate material:

• (c) the ropes shall be supported by posts of a height of approximately 1.22 m above the floor of the ring, and the posts shall be padded for their full length with felt or other appropriate material of a thickness of not less than 5 cm:

  provided that this paragraph shall not apply where the ropes are supported on the stakeless principle:

• (d) the whole of the floor of the ring shall be padded with felt or other appropriate material not less than 1.27 cm thick and having a top cover of canvas:

• (e) the boxing gloves shall weigh not less than 165 g nor more than 230 g, except that competitors who are under 51 kg in weight may use gloves weighing not less than 110 g:

• (f) every competitor shall, before engaging in a contest, produce to the referee or the secretary of the club for inspection by any policeman present a certificate dated not more than 3 days previously and signed by a medical practitioner to the effect that the competitor is medically fit to compete:

• (g) no amateur contest shall exceed 6 rounds and no professional contest shall exceed 15 rounds:

• (h) no round shall exceed 3 minutes in duration, and the interval between each round shall be not less than 1 minute:

• (i) if at any time in the opinion of the senior policeman present on duty at any contest there is undue roughness or persistent or wilful breach by 1 or more of the contestants of any of the boxing rules under which the contest is conducted, that policeman may order the contest to be stopped, and the permit shall thereupon become void in respect of the contest which has been stopped as aforesaid.

(1) Every permit to hold a wrestling contest shall be deemed to be granted subject to the following conditions:

• (a) the contest shall be conducted in a ring not less than 5.49 m square, but of such larger size up to 7.32 m square as in the opinion of the commissioned officer of Police granting the permit can be reasonably provided:

• (b) the ring shall be enclosed by at least 4 horizontal tightly stretched ropes and the top rope shall be cased in leather or other appropriate material:

• (c) the bottom rope shall be not less than 30 cm or more than 46 cm above the floor of the ring, and the top rope shall be not less than 1.37 m or more than 1.52 m above the floor of the ring, and the intervening ropes shall be so placed as to provide approximately equal distances between each rope:

• (d) the ropes shall be supported by posts of a height of approximately 1.6 m above the floor of the ring, and the posts shall be padded with felt or other appropriate material not less than 5 cm thick:

  provided that this paragraph shall not apply where the ropes are supported on the stakeless principle:

• (e) the whole of the floor of the ring shall be padded with felt or other appropriate material not less than 2.5 cm thick and having a top cover of canvas:

• (f) every competitor shall, before engaging in a contest, produce to the referee or the secretary of the club for inspection by any policeman present a certificate dated not more than 7 days previously and signed by a medical practitioner to the effect that the competitor is medically fit to compete:

  provided that nothing in this paragraph shall apply in respect of a competitor in a contest held by the New Zealand Amateur Wrestling Union (Incorporated) or any club affiliated to it:

• (g) no contest shall exceed 8 rounds of 10 minutes each, with an interval of not less than 1 minute between each round:

• (h) in no contest, other than one between professional wrestlers, shall the time occupied in actual wrestling exceed 15 minutes:

• (i) a fall shall be counted whenever a competitor's 2 shoulders are on the ground at the same time for a period of 3 seconds:

  provided that any wrestling rules may provide that submission signified to the referee shall be counted as a fall:

• (j) a round shall end by a fall, or a submission, or effluxion of time limit, whichever occurs first:

• (k) if at any time in the opinion of the senior policeman present on duty at any contest there is undue roughness or persistent or wilful breach by 1 or more of the contestants of any of the wrestling rules under which the contest is conducted, that policeman may order the contest to be stopped and the permit shall thereupon become void in respect of the contest which has been stopped as aforesaid.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subclause (1), where a wrestling contest, other than one between professional wrestlers, is held on good turf outside any building, a commissioned officer of Police may dispense with compliance with any 1 or more of the provisions contained in paragraphs (a) to (f) of that subclause; and where a wrestling contest, other than one between professional wrestlers, is held on the main floor or one of the main floors of a building and there is left on all sides of the ring on a level with and contiguous to it a space not less than 1.83 m wide completely free from obstructions and covered with some soft material well fixed to the floor, a commissioned officer of Police, if he is of opinion that the use of ropes enclosing the ring is not necessary for the protection of the competitors, may dispense with compliance with the requirements of the provisions contained in paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) of the said subclause (1).

The regulations referred to in Schedule 2 are hereby revoked.