Integrity Sport and Recreation Act 2023

Powers, investigations, and disciplinary panels

27: Overview of this Part

You could also call this:

"What the Commission can do to keep sports fair and honest"

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This part of the law is about the powers of the Commission. You will learn about what the Commission can do to keep sports fair and honest. The Commission has to follow the World Anti-Doping Code and other rules to make sure sports are fair.

The Commission gets its powers from different parts of the law, like Subpart 1 which is about testing and investigating people who might be cheating in sports. Another part, Subpart 2, is about following an integrity code to keep sports honest.

The Commission can also investigate when someone breaks the integrity code or threatens the honesty of sports, as stated in Subpart 3. If someone breaks the code, the Commission can set up a disciplinary panel, as outlined in Subpart 4, to decide what punishment they should get.

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26: Commission must review anti-doping rules from time to time, or

"The Commission must regularly check and update the rules to stop doping in sport."

28: Powers of Commission to comply with and implement World Anti-Doping Code and anti-doping rules, or

"The Commission's job is to follow and enforce the World Anti-Doping Code and anti-doping rules."

Part 4Powers, investigations, and disciplinary panels

27Overview of this Part

Subpart 1 confers powers on the Commission to comply with and implement the World Anti-Doping Code and the anti-doping rules. The anti-doping rules set out the detail of the testing and investigation powers of the Commission under the rules.
Subpart 2 deals with the powers of the Commission to comply with and implement an integrity code.
Subpart 3 confers investigative powers relating to breaches of integrity codes and in relation to threats to integrity.
Subpart 4 deals with disciplinary panels that the Commission may establish to consider and determine whether an integrity code, or an organisation’s policy made under an integrity code, has been breached by a participant and the sanction to be imposed for the breach.
This section is intended only as a guide to the overall scheme and effect of this Part.