V4.0  01/01/2021  AGM 2020  • Changes at the World Anti -Doping Agency’s request , requiring all International Federations  to update their Anti -Doping Rules in accordance with the revised World Anti -Doping Code that came into effect on 1 January 2021     3 | P a g e    TABLE OF CONTENTS  PURPOSE, SCOPE & ORGANISATION  OF THE ANTI-DOPING PROGRAMME, THE CODE & THE ANTI-DOPING  RULES  4  Purpose  4 The Code  4 The World Anti -Doping Programme  4 International Standards  4 Models of Best Practice & Guidelines  4 Preface  4 Fundamental Rationale for the Code and the WSF's Anti -Doping Rules  5 World Squash Federation's Anti -Doping History  5 Scope of these Anti -Doping Rules  5  PART ONE: DOPING  CONTROL  7 INTRODUCTION   8 ARTICLE 1  DEFINITION OF DOPING  8 ARTICLE 2  ANTI-DOPING RULE VIOLATIONS  8 ARTICLE 3  PROOF OF DOPING  12 ARTICLE 4  THE PROHIBITED LIST  13 ARTICLE 5  TESTING & INVESTIGATIONS  17 ARTICLE 6  ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES  20 ARTICLE 7  RESULTS MANAGEMENT : RESPONSIBILIT Y, INITIAL REVIEW, NOTI CE & PROVI SIONAL SUSPENSIONS  22 ARTICLE 8  RESU LTS MANAGEMENT : RIGHT TO A FAIR HEARING  & NOTICE OF HEARING DECISION  24 ARTICLE 9  AUTOMATIC DISQUALIFICATION  OF INDIVIDUAL RESULTS  26 ARTICLE 10  SANCTIONS ON INDIVIDUALS  26 ARTICLE 11  CONSEQUENCES  TO TEAMS  36 ARTICLE 12  SANCTIONS BY THE WSF AGAINST OTHER SPORTING BODIES  37 ARTICLE 13  RESULTS MANAGEMENT :APPEALS  37 ARTICLE 14  CONFIDENTIALITY & REPORTING  40 ARTICLE 15  IMPLEMENTATION  OF DECISIONS  43 ARTICLE 16  STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS  45 ARTICLE 17  EDUCATION  45 ARTICLE 18  ADDITIONAL ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES OF NATIONAL FEDERATIONS  45 ARTICLE 19  ADDITIONAL RO LES & RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE WSF 46 ARTICLE 20  ADDITIONAL ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ATHLETES  46 ARTICLE 21   ADDITIONAL ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES OF ATHLETE SUPPORT PERSONNEL  46   4 | P a g e   ARTICLE 22  ADDITIONAL ROLES & RESPONS IBILITIES OF  OTHER PERSONS  SUBJECT TO THESE ANTI -DOPING RULES  47 ARTICLE 23 INTERPRETATION OF THE CODE  47 ARTICLE 24 FINAL PROVISIONS  47 APPENDIX 1  DEFINITIONS  49 APPENDIX 2 CONSENT FORM  57   5 | P a g e   WORLD SQUASH FEDERATION ANTI -DOPING RULES   PURPOSE, SCOPE & ORGANISATION OF THE WORLD ANTI -DOPING PROGRAMME, THE CODE & THE WSF ANTI -DOPING RULES  The purposes of the World Anti -Doping Code and the World Anti -Doping Program which supports it are: • To protect the Athletes’ fundamental righ t to participate in doping -free sport and thus promote health, fairness and equality for Athletes worldwide, and  • To ensure harmonised, coordinated and effective anti -doping programs at the international and national  level with regard to the prevention of d oping, including:  Education: To raise awareness, inform, communicate, to instil values, develop life skills and decision -making capability to prevent intentional and unintentional anti -doping rule violations.