Under the plan, the association will open its doors from November 16 to allow clubs to run non-contact training sessions. Clubs will be allowed to conduct contact training from the following week in preparation for a return to junior competition from November 30.

It follows an announcement from the state government that indoor contact sport would be permitted from November 22.

According to the government's third step guidelines, indoor venues will have a patron cap of 100 people, while large venues will be allowed to fill up to 25 per cent capacity, with each space subject to the density quotient.

However Basketball Ballarat interim chief executive Mark Valentine said the association's plan to reopen hinged on whether a single basketball court would qualify as an individual space under the government's definition.

He said the association could only operate if the same rules that allowed it to reopen in July applied again this time around.

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"We've done our preparation based on where we were in July," he said.

"When we opened in July the government accepted the fact that a court was a single space so we had eight spaces at BSEC.

"But we've got to get Basketball Victoria to get the government to understand that that needs to happen again to get the sport to function."

Under Basketball Ballarat's return to play plan, junior competitions would resume from November 30 for the three weeks before stopping for Christmas. This would be a continuation of the 'lightening premiership season' launched in July.

Play would then resume from February when a grading period would take place before launching into an estimated 20 week championship season.

Meanwhile a survey would be sent out to senior players to give them the option to return for the three weeks before Christmas.

Valentine said he hoped to have more clarity around the government's guidelines at the end of the week.

"We are waiting on a hook up to get some clarity," he said.