Part 1Preliminary provisions
3Purpose
The purpose of this Act is to establish the Commission to—
- enhance integrity within sport and physical recreation to protect and promote the safety and well-being of participants and the fairness of competition:
- with respect to anti-doping, give effect to the World Anti-Doping Code in New Zealand in order to achieve the Code’s purposes of—
- protecting athletes’ fundamental right to participate in doping-free sport and in this way promote health, fairness, and equality for athletes worldwide; and
- ensuring harmonised, co-ordinated, and effective anti-doping programmes at an international and national level with regard to detection, deterrence, and prevention of doping.
- protecting athletes’ fundamental right to participate in doping-free sport and in this way promote health, fairness, and equality for athletes worldwide; and