23Anti-doping rules

1. The Commission must make, and always have, anti-doping rules to implement the World Anti-Doping Code.

2. To the extent that the World Anti-Doping Code requires specified Articles of the Code to be incorporated into the anti-doping rules without substantive changes (allowing for necessary non-substantive editing changes in order to refer to things like sports, section numbers, and the Commission’s name), the anti-doping rules must incorporate those Articles in that manner.

3. In addition, the Commission may make any other anti-doping rules that are necessary or desirable to govern the practice and procedure of the Commission’s functions under section 13(j) to (o).

4. Without limiting subsection (3), the Commission may make anti-doping rules—

5. requiring an organisation to which, or individual to whom, the anti-doping rules apply to—
   1. provide to the Commission information or documents that the Commission considers is reasonably necessary for the purposes of performing its function to comply with and implement the anti-doping rules:
   2. co-operate fully with an investigation under the anti-doping rules, for example, by attending a hearing or an interview:
6. providing for reasonable and proportionate sanctions (of the kind permitted under the World Anti-Doping Code) for a breach of a requirement referred to in paragraph (a).

7. Rules made under this section may authorise specified procedures or matters of detail to be determined by the Commission, and may not be challenged on the ground that they leave such matters to the discretion of the Commission.

8. Rules made under this section—

9. are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements); and
10. come into force on the later of—
    1. the date that is 28 days after they are published under that Act; and
    2. the date specified in the rules.