Boxing Control. (Ch. 30. No. 12.

SECTION 9,—CHAMPIONSHIP CONTESTS.

11. The Board may declare the winner of an approved contest between
contestants for a championship of a particular class to be the champion
of that class.

No contestant shall be permitted to engage in a championship contest
unless he was born in the Colony or has been continuously resident
therein for a period of not less than three years.

The winner of a championship contest shall retain his possession of the
championship title unless he loses the same by being defeated in a
championship contest, or by default, or by his inability to make the
weight: Provided that a championship can only be won in a contest.

The claim of a champion to a championship title may be forfeited on
any of the following grounds :—

(a) if the champion has failed to defend his championship title
within a period of time specified by the Board after a challenge
which has been approved by the Board has been issued to him;

(6) if the champion has ceased, of his own accord, to be licensed
as a professional boxer for three years or more;

(c) if the champion is proved to the satisfaction of the Board to
be guilty of gross misconduct as a boxer;
(d) if the licence of the champion has been revoked or suspended
by the Board, or the Board has refused to issue a licence to him.
Save when a championship title is won in a contest, the Board shall
decide whether, and declare when, a championship title is lost or forfeited
and may sanction a contest between contestants selected by the Board
for any championship which is lost or forfeited.

SECTION 10.—CLASSIFICATION OF CONTESTANTS.

12. Contestants shall be classified as follows :—

Flyweight 112 lb. and under.
Bantamweight 118 ~— do.
Featherweight 126 do.
Lightweight 135 do.
Welterweight 147 — do.
Middleweight 160 — do.
Light Heavyweight 175 = do

Heavy-weight... Le ... Over 175 Ib.

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