Prevention of Corruption in Sport Regulations, 2024

L.N. 40 of 2024

SPORTS GOVERNANCE AND INTEGRITY ACT

(CAP. 626)

Establishment and Composition of the National Platform for the

Prevention of Corruption in Sport Regulations, 2024

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 73 of the

Sports Governance and Integrity Act, the Minister responsible for

sports, on the advice of the Authority for Integrity in Maltese Sport,

has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Establishment and Citation.

Composition of the National Platform for the Prevention of

Corruption in Sport Regulations, 2024.

(1)

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise Interpretation.

requires

"Act" means the Sports Governance and Integrity Act;

"administrator" means the person who performs

administrative work with respect to the operation of the

platform and who shall also be vested with the capacity to act as

a controller in terms of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the

European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the

protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of

personal data and on the free movement of such data, and

repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection

Regulation)

"Authority" means the Authority for Integrity in Maltese

Sport established by article 5 and any reference in these

regulations or any other law to the Authority shall, unless the

context otherwise requires, be construed as including a

reference to any person authorised by the Authority to act for or

on its behalf;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for sports;

"platform" means the National Platform for the Prevention

of Corruption in Sport established by regulation 3;

"sport organisation" means a federation or a national

federation or an association or a national association or club or

foundation having sport as its main objective or an academy or

sport school or any other person registered in the Authority’s

Register for Sport Persons or an organisation having sport as its

main objective and which for any reason whatsoever is not yet

registered in the said Register.

(2) The definitions prescribed in the Prevention of Corruption

in Sport Act shall apply, mutatis mutandis, unless they are

inconsistent with these regulations.

(3) The definitions prescribed in the Act shall apply, mutatis

mutandis, unless they are inconsistent with these regulations.

(1) There shall be a national platform for the Prevention

of Corruption in Sport which shall be known as "the platform".

(2) The platform shall have a legal personality distinct and

independent from the Authority in order to carry out all the actions

referred to in article 44 of the Act.

(3) The main objectives of the platform shall be the following

(a)

to collect and analyse information relevant to

investigations relating to suspected manipulation of sport events

and to share the information with other national and

international entities of a similar nature in accordance with the

National Platform for the Prevention of Corruption in Sport

(Powers and Obligations) Regulations, 2024 and the Prevention

of Corruption in Sport Act;

(b) to analyse alerts stemming from betting monitoring

systems and other platforms whose function includes the

detection of suspicious betting activities;

(c)

to act as an information hub;

(d) to assist the police and sport organisations in the

production of evidence arising from information collected for

the purpose of prosecution of criminal cases as well as

disciplinary proceedings of a sporting nature respectively.

(1) The Authority shall always be responsible for

establishing policies and strategies for fighting manipulation of sport

results as well as the drawing up of educational programmes and the

dissemination of information in collaboration with the national

associations and federations and the Directorates for Education.

(2) The Authority shall provide sport organisations with

standards for the purpose of establishing procedures and regulations

that assist with the fight against manipulation of sport results. Sport

organisations shall comply with these standards and in default of

conformity with such standards they shall be liable to an

administrative penalty of not less than one hundred euro (€100) and

not exceeding one thousand euro (€1,000).

(1) The platform shall be composed of interested Composition of

national entities which are most impacted by the risk of corruption in the platform.

sport, in particular from

(a)

a representative

nominated

by

the

Ministry

responsible for Sport;

(b) a representative nominated

by

the

Ministry

responsible for Home Affairs;

(c)

two (2) representatives nominated by the Authority

in the grade of Director or higher within the Authority, one (1)

of whom shall be appointed chairperson of the platform;

(d) a representative from the Police Force in the grade

of Police Inspector or a higher grade officer, who shall be the

official responsible for sport manipulation matters;

(e)

a representative from the Malta Gaming Authority

having been given a written delegation by the Chief Executive

Officer of the said authority, who shall be the official

responsible for sport manipulation matters;

(f)

a representative from the Maltese Olympic

Committee who shall be qualified in sport and an expert in

integrity in sport; and

(g) a representative of the Malta Football Association

who holds the position of Integrity Officer within the said

association.

(2) The Minister may, on the advice of the Authority, increase

or change the representation on the platform by means of regulations

made under the Act. The said amendments shall only take place in the

event that the trends relating to the objectives of the platform change

from time to time.

(3) The number of members shall not be more than eleven (11)

members.

(4) The legal and judicial representation of the Authority shall

vest in the Chairperson and in the administrator of the platform.

(1)

The platform shall be chaired and coordinated by the

Coordination by

the Authority.

Authority.

(2) There shall be appointed an administrator for the purpose

of coordinating the platform who shall perform any administrative

work necessary for the platform’s operation.

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