To encourage and protect the nationals’ participation in sports activities, to improve the national sports environment and to promote the national sports policies and the development of sports, this Act is hereby promulgated.

The competent authority for this Act refer to: the Ministry of Education of the central government; city governments of direct municipalities; and county（city）governments of counties（cities）.

Terms of this Act are defined as follows:
1. Sports Association : sports associations that aim to promote sports and which have been approved by the competent authority of the Civil Associations Act and registered as such and whose specific competent authority are the competent authority for this Act, i.e. the Ministry of Education, the city governments or the county（city）governments.
2. Specified Sports Association: national sports associations which hold the official membership of the international sports associations.
3. Sports Professionals: individuals who have received the professional education or training in sports and passed the test held by the central competent authority with certificate and who, relying on his/her professional knowledge and skills, engage in certain sports career.
4. Sports Coaches: individuals who have received the professional training in sports and are familiar with the coaching and the competing policies and who, with the certificate issued by Sports Associations after passing tests, engage in sports instructions and coaching.
5. Sports Referees: individuals who have received professional training in sports and are familiar with the competing policies and who, with the certificate issued by Sports Associations after passing tests, engage in referee in sports competitions.

Each municipal, county（city）government should establish dedicated department for sports; township（town, city, district）offices should position dedicated sports personnel in charge of the planning, counseling and promoting national sports events.

The government of all level should protect the rights of its people to use sports facilities and to participate in sports activities on equal basis.
Each organization, institution, school, juridical person and association should, in accordance with relevant rules, promote sports activities in concert with the national sports policy.

To encourage the nationals to participate in sports activities, September 9th of each year is the
National Sports Day.
The Government of all levels should enhance on promoting sports for whole people.
The public sports facilities of the government of all levels should be open to the public free of charge on the National Sports Day; and the government should encourage other sports facilities to be open to the public free of charge on the National Sports Day.

In order to implement the sports activities, the central competent authority should promulgate national sports development policy and review such policy on annual basis; the competent authorities of municipals and counties（cities）should set out the local sports development plans according to the national sports development policy

The government of all levels should encourage each organization, school, juridical person and association to hold sports matches.
Each national sports match should be planned in accordance with the national sports development policy and in concert with the international official sports competitions.
The regulation of each national sport complex is to be promulgated by the central competent authority.

The expenses to implement the sports for the whole people, governmental organizations of all levels and schools should budget respectively.
Each Sport Association should raise on its own any expense it requires, competent authority of all levels may subsidize as it deems appropriate; the qualifications to apply for and the conditions, procedures, manners, standards, withdrawals and revocations of subsidies and other regulations or ordinances are to be decided by competent authorities of all levels.

The central competent authority should establish a system for training and test of Sports Professionals.
The scope of the Sports Professionals in the preceding paragraph is to be decided by the central competent authority; the test for qualifications, issuance, corrections, renewals of certificates, the fees of test and certificate, the withdrawals and revocations of certificate and other regulations that ought to be followed are to be decided by the central competent authority.

To improve the physical constitution of school students of all levels and the physical fitness of nationals and to cultivate athletes to compete in international matches, the competent authority of all levels may collect, process and use the following personal data and build up a database.
1. The physical fitness data of school students of all levels.
2. The data of registration, enrollment, score record, game and sports injury of each and all level and category of the country and the representative athletes.
3. The data of status and scores of college students in sports-related departments, students of sports senior high school and students of sports class in schools below senior high level.
Each competent authority should designate a specialist to maintain the management and security of the data of the preceding paragraph.
When an athlete of representative team of schools of all levels enter into the next level of school education or transfer to another school, the original school and the present school the athlete goes to should use the database in paragraph 1 to make transition or transfer of the personal data.

Each organization, institution, school, juridical person and association shall protect the right and interests of persons with disabilities to participate in sport activities and plan appropriate sport facilities, activities and lectures.

To encourage international cooperation on sports and to facilitate the rise of the status in sports area of Republic of China（Taiwan）, each competent authority of all levels should promote international sports activities; the manners and subsidies of expenses of such activities and the regulations or ordinances that ought to be followed in the activities are to be decided by each competent authority of all levels.