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Integrity Sport and Recreation Act 2023

Integrity Sport and Recreation Commission

13: Functions of Commission

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"What the Commission does to keep sport fair and honest in New Zealand"

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The Commission has many jobs to do. You can think of these jobs as falling into a few main areas. The Commission helps keep sport and recreation fair and honest by giving advice and guidance.

The Commission also develops rules to keep sport and recreation fair, and it helps resolve disputes when they happen. It investigates when someone does something wrong in sport or recreation, and it has a process to discipline people who break the rules.

The Commission makes rules to stop athletes from using performance-enhancing drugs, and it tests athletes to make sure they are following these rules. It works with other organisations in New Zealand and around the world to stop doping in sport.

The Commission advises the Minister on matters related to integrity in sport and recreation, and it takes steps to achieve its purposes as outlined in section 3(a) and (b). It also does other jobs that it is given by law or that the Minister tells it to do, as stated in section 112 of the Crown Entities Act 2004.

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Part 2Integrity Sport and Recreation Commission

13Functions of Commission

  1. The functions of the Commission are—

    Promoting, advising, and leading on integrity in sport and recreation

  2. to provide advice, support, education, and guidance relating to integrity in sport and organised physical recreation:
    1. to advocate and promote respect for, and enhance understanding and appreciation of, integrity in sport and organised physical recreation:
      1. to engage with the sport and physical recreation sector to monitor developments relating to integrity:
        1. to be a leader on integrity issues in sport and organised physical recreation within Government and to co-ordinate with relevant international bodies:

            1. Integrity codes, investigations, discipline, and dispute resolution

          1. to develop and issue integrity codes under Part 3:
            1. to provide mechanisms for complaints and disclosures relating to integrity in the sport and recreation sector:
              1. to provide accessible, age appropriate, and culturally responsive mechanisms for resolution of disputes relating to integrity between persons or organisations involved in sport and organised physical recreation:
                1. to investigate matters relating to integrity in the sport and physical recreation sector in accordance with Part 4:
                  1. to provide a disciplinary process for breaches of integrity codes:

                      1. Sports anti-doping

                    1. to make anti-doping rules in accordance with sections 23 to 26:
                      1. to do all things necessary to comply with and implement the anti-doping rules:
                        1. to do all things necessary to comply with and implement any Article of the World Anti-Doping Code that—
                          1. is not required to be reflected in the anti-doping rules; but
                            1. requires the Commission to do something:
                            2. to facilitate compliance by New Zealand with all international agreements and arrangements concerning doping in sport to which New Zealand is a party:
                              1. to test athletes who are not citizens or residents of New Zealand, and notify the test results, in accordance with bilateral or multilateral agreements entered into with foreign Governments, foreign anti-doping organisations, or other signatories to the World Anti-Doping Code, and enter into reciprocal testing agreements in relation to athletes who are citizens or residents of New Zealand:
                                1. to consult, advise, and assist—
                                  1. government departments, local authorities, Sport and Recreation New Zealand, the New Zealand Olympic Committee Incorporated, Paralympics New Zealand, national sporting organisations, athletes, and other bodies or persons on any matters concerned with doping in sport, and related matters:
                                    1. government and non-government organisations and other persons overseas, for the purpose of promoting the adoption of uniform international testing procedures for doping in sport:

                                      2. General

                                    2. to advise the Minister from time to time on any matters related to integrity in sport and organised physical recreation:
                                      1. to generally take all steps necessary or desirable to achieve the purposes in section 3(a) and (b):
                                        1. to perform any other functions that—
                                          1. are conferred on the Commission by this or any other enactment; or
                                            1. the Minister may direct in accordance with section 112 of the Crown Entities Act 2004.