8 000 Sports Associations Face The Axe For Being Inactive

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The youth and sports ministry has found that 70% of the 11,000 sports associations registered at various levels were found to be inactive. (Bernama pic)KUALA LUMPUR: Inactive sports associations face action such as being given show-cause letters, suspended or banned by the Sports Commissioner (PJS), deputy youth and sports minister Ti Lian Ker said today.
He said his ministry took the matter seriously as about 70% (more than 8,000) of the more than 11,000 associations registered at various levels were found to be inactive.
He said that of the 11,469 associations registered under the Sports Development Act 1997 (Act 576) from 1998 to 2021, 217 (1.9%) were at the national level, 1,432 (12.5%) at the state level, 1,636 (14.3%) district level, and 8,184 (71.3%) club level.
“The youth and sports ministry through the PJS is conducting a sports body star rating on all registered sports bodies.
Ti Lian Ker.“Associations need to submit reports to the PJS annually after holding their annual general meeting (AGM) for us to evaluate their governance and the extent to which they are active.
“When the reports are not submitted, it gives the impression that as many as 70% do not hold an AGM or are not active as stipulated in their constitutions,” he said in an interview on Bernama TV’s Ruang Bicara programme at Wisma Bernama here last night.
Ti said the ministry needed to take stern action, such as banning and suspending associations that did not comply with the Act and their articles of association, to prevent them from continuing to receive financial assistance or sports-related funds.
Apart from that, Ti said the ministry also found that some sports organisations were not registered under PJS.
Instead, they were registered under the Registrar of Societies (RoS) or the Registrar of Companies (RoC).
He said these organisations would also not be let off the hook if they were found to have flouted any laws. - FMT

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