National Anti-Doping Act

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THE NATIONAL ANTI-DOPING ACT, 2022 NO. 15 OF 2022 [12th August, 2022.] An Act to provide for the constitution of the National Anti-Doping Agency for regulating anti-doping activities in sports and to give effect to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation International Convention against doping in sport, and compliance of such other obligations and commitments thereunder and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. WHEREAS India is a signatory to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation International Convention against doping in sport; AND WHEREAS India has ratified the said Convention on the 7th day of November, 2007; AND WHEREAS it is considered expedient to maintain highest standards of integrity while participating and preparing for sports competition domestically and internationally, to regulate anti-doping activities in sports and to meet obligations of India under the said Convention. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-third Year of the Republic of India as follows:— (1) This Act may be called the National Anti-Doping Act, 2022. (2) It shall come into force on such date [1] as the Central Governmen