Dear Fellow Car enthusiast and CAMS
member
Have you read the fine print before renewing your CAMS licence? CAMS
wants you to grant them new powers to take it away!
All CAMS licence renewals now require
that you certify 2 things
1.
That you will immediately
notify them if you are charged with (not convicted of!) a criminal
offence
2.
That you agree they can take
away your licence at any time, without stating a reason!
By agreeing to the above, you are
granting powers to CAMS which are outside their scope as administrators of
motorsport. You are agreeing that they can decide you are guilty of a criminal
charge before the courts can, and that an anonymous CAMS official can walk up
to you 5 minutes before the start of Targa Tasmania or the Bathurst 1000 and take
away your licence without so much as stating a reason.
I am not afraid of character checks,
I get them all the time from my various employers, including the RAAF, SA
Ambulance Service, SA Health and the SA Country Fire Service. I was even
awarded a Presidential Commendation by CAMS for medical services to motorsport,
but this is a gross over-reach by CAMS. I am not asking them to certify my
fitness to host a school camp or coach the local primary school soccer team,
all I ask CAMS to do is certify that I am fit to drive a race-car.
I wrote to CAMS refusing their terms,
and asking them to modify the conditions to require members to notify them only
of a conviction (not an allegation) and to require CAMS to state a
reason when cancelling a licence.
CAMS refused this, and cancelled my
National Rally Licence. They really do want the power to decide on your
guilt in a criminal matter, and to be able to take away your licence at
any time, without stating a reason.
I do not accept this and have
commenced legal action, which will likely be stressful and expensive.
If you agree that the new licence
conditions are also un-acceptable to you, you can support me by contacting CAMS
and telling that you too believe their new conditions are an over-reach, and
asking them to change them as above.
You can write to the CAMS President, Andrew
Papadopoulos, c/
·
PO Box 147, Caulfield East Vic
3145
·
or by email info@cams.com.au
4 comments:
Confederation against motor sport.
Confederation against motor sport.
Bureaucrats do not grant themselves powers unless they plan to use them. If this matter is not covered in the CAMS constitution, then clearly the sponsors of this initiative have exceeded their authority granted to them by the members. Therefore they have lost their mandate and are now operating without authority. Office holders can only legitimately operate with explicitly delegated authority.
Bruce Paix, should he be successful in defeating this new imposition, would be well advised to impose some sort of penalty to the sponsors of this overreach, preferably removal from office. Otherwise these sponsors will learn that they can do what they like with impunity. Inevitably they will resurrect this initiative in one form or another in the future and Mr Paix and his supporters will have to go through this whole business again.
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