Malaysia legislation

Section 25

of *SPORTS DEVELOPMENT ACT 1997

Section 25

(a)

such sports body shall not organize, conduct, sanction or participate in any activity, including ongoing

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competitions, events or forum for any sports, whether within or outside Malaysia;

(b)

such sports body shall not receive or continue to receive funding from the Government, the National Sports

Council or any statutory body;

(c)

such sports body shall not be a member of any body or organization acting as or purporting to act as the governing body of any sport in Malaysia or represent or purport to represent the participants of any sport in

Malaysia;

(d)

such sports body shall not use the phrase “of Malaysia”

for any of its activities, or any other form of letters or marking manifesting that its activities are conducted for, in the name of or on behalf of, Malaysia or any part of

Malaysia; and

(e)

such sports body shall not organize, participate in or send participants to any sports competitions or event manifesting that such undertaking by it is for, in the name of or on behalf of, Malaysia or any part of

Malaysia, within or outside Malaysia.

(2)

Any office bearer who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than five thousand ringgit but not more than fifty thousand ringgit and in the case of a continuing offence, to a fine not exceeding five hundred ringgit per day for each day during which the offence continues.

(3)

The Commissioner may, in writing, suspend the operation of subsection (1) in relation to any sports body to such extent and for such period as he thinks fit.

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