Standard Playing Contract. (a) All contracts for the playing of Australian Football entered into between a Player, an AFL Club and the AFL shall be in the form of the Standard Playing Contract. (b) All Standard Playing Contracts, variations and Additional Service Agreements lodged with the AFL shall be supported by statutory declarations made by each of the following persons: (i) the Player; (ii) an officer of the AFL Club who had the care and conduct of negotiating with the Player; and (iii) an Accredited Agent, parent or legal guardian, as the case may be, who has been authorised by the Player to act on his behalf in negotiating with the AFL Club. (c) The terms of the statutory declaration shall be in a form determined from time to time by the AFL in consultation with the AFLPA. (d) The parties to a Standard Playing Contract, which contract has not been terminated, may vary the terms of the contract or renew the contract for a further term/s, by written agreement of the parties. (e) All Standard Playing Contracts shall expire on 31 October in the final year of the Player’s contract unless the contract has been varied or renewed, in which case the contract shall expire on 31 October in the final year of the varied or renewed contract. (f) The AFL and the AFLPA recognise that Standard Playing Contracts between AFL Clubs and Players create legally binding obligations and that the parties to such contracts have legitimate expectations that the terms of such contracts will be honoured. (g) An AFL Club and a Player shall not include provision in a Standard Playing Contract which would entitle either party to unilaterally exercise an option to extend the term of a Player’s contract.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
