How the NIF Works

Threats to snooker and billiard’s integrity can include competition manipulation and sports gambling, doping, the improper use of drugs and medicine and behaviours that impact people’s positive experience of sport, such as discrimination or abuse, including against children.

Two guides to the types of behaviours that are a threat to the integrity of our sport, and which are prohibited under the NIF, are available at:

General Guide:  Standards & Prohibited Conduct Guide

Detailed Guide:  Detailed Prohibited Conduct Resource

Thankfully, in our sport serious cases such as these are isolated.  However, given sport is a snapshot of society, from time-to-time poor behaviour such as lack of respect, bad sportsmanship, discrimination and inappropriate comments do occur.

The National Integrity Framework is designed to help the ABSC, Member States and their individual members identify, manage and resolve threats to the integrity of the sport, and do so in a transparent and consistent way.

Any Member of a State Billiards & Snooker Association can make a Complaint or lodge a report if they believe a fellow member has behaved poorly and potentially breached one of the policies.  Most complaints should be lodged directly with the ABSC (not your State association) apart from those involving child safety matters or discrimination which will be handled by SIA directly.

Depending on the nature and severity of the potential breach, the ABSC may delegate local or minor matters to be managed by the relevant State association.

The graphic below lists what threats are the responsibility of Sport Integrity Australia, and what will be managed by the ABSC or its delegate: