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Here is something that could provide a pressure relief valve to the somewhat fractious atmosphere presently prevailing in the NZ motorcycle sport arena.
From Australia - If you don\'t like a rule in the Motorcycling Australia \"Manual of Motorcycle Sport\" you can now make submissions for alterations, deletions or additions for the 2005 competition rules. 2005 submissions can be made by individuals, clubs or other interested parties.
Submissions must detail the rule involved, and the full reasons for the change. Submissions will be sent on to all State Controlling Bodies and to the relevant Commissioners, for their consideration.
Presently (I think) changes can only be submitted to MNZ by clubs.
UPDATE:
The above was F/wd to MNZ inviting comment and the response was:
I saw the communication too. Our system seems light years ahead.
In NZ a sporting rule change can be started at anytime of the year by a member, group of members or club.Constitutional changes can only be made at the AGM
All that has to happen is that a case needs to be put to the relevant sporting commissioner, they will ask for the justification and reasons. If it is valid they will put it through the process that ends up with Board sign off.
From memory we made about 7 sporting rule changes last year using this method.
No need to go through State Bodies either, I imagine getting all of the Australian Sates to agree to a rule change would be the hard bit.
Just not liking a rule isn’t enough to convince us to change it. There must be a valid case based on the general good to the sport or something like safety ie there must be justification.
Incidentally, MNZ has commissioned someone to rewrite our entire rulebook so that it is more user friendly and easier to follow. We also want to take the tautologies (saying the same thing twice) out of it. The project is going well and the first draft, which covers about half of the rule book, looks good – it’s a big job and may take the rest of the year to complete.
Trevor Gill
