At the recent May General Meeting of the Australian Fencing Federation the following decision was approved:
“The conductive bid for Foil masks will become a requirement for all AFF level tournaments from 1st January, 2011. The requirement will be for FIE approved masks only, for safety and potential insurance risk reasons, no converted conventional masks will be accepted.”
This notification provides the required 6 month lead time previously agreed to by the members of the AFF.