ACTA Insurance

(From the February 2005 issue of the ACT Shooting News)

It would appear that several clubs and registered shooters are having difficulty understanding the current insurance cover held by the Association. After discussions with Mr. Rob Low from SSAA Insurance Brokers the following explanations hopefully will rectify the problem:

* Clubs must encourage all their members to join the ACTA as registered shooters. * If the club has members that are not registered shooters with the ACTA then it is the responsibility of the club to provide insurance for those members. ACTA held insurance policies do not cover club members that are not registered shooters of the ACTA. * ACTA registered shooters are covered by the insurance policies when shooting at any affiliated ACTA club. * Club volunteers are covered by the ACTA held insurance policies. These are unpaid people who do the many jobs required to run a club and are not required to sign the visitors book. * Visitors are non-members who attend the club to shoot targets only on a recreational basis. Non-shooters who attend and are connected with the shooting activity are also visitors. By signing the visitor's book they are considered to be 'authorised visitors' and are covered by the insurance policies. * In regards to sporting clays only the ACTA allows members from SSAA and F&G to compete in these events. These members are not required to sign the visitor's book as their parent association holds appropriate insurance to cover these shooters. In all other events competitors must be registered through an affiliated ACTA club before taking part in competition (Rule 4.14(0). * The public in general, spectator's etc are covered by the 'Public Liability Insurance' policy held by the ACTA.

Please contact the ACTA office if you have any questions in regards to insurance.