Quote Originally Posted by Bladerunner View Post
Exactly Dominion, plus when you fill an entry form in it usually just asks whether you are a member of a club or not so unless race organisers have a full up to date list of which clubs are affiliated to UKA not ARC I don't see how they are going to be able to tell?
The onus may transfer to the permit authority who could go through the list of results and then bill the race organiser for all athletes who, in their opinion, do not have the correct affiliation.

Races under different authorities will require individuals to declare their affiliation (and quoting their reference number) in order to establish if a levy should be charged.

Some runners will run under assumed names or give fictional information in order to reduce their entry fee. This will create even more difficulties.

The overall effect may be that entry fees for many races will be raised in order to reimburse the authorities and every athlete will suffer.