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Title: National Sports Act CH
Category: Ministry of Education(教育部)
Chapter 4 Competing Sports
Article 21
Competent authority of all levels should establish a system to cultivate athlete, the manners, planning, budgeting, rights and interests of athletes and other regulations are to be decided by the central competent authority.
The regulations concerning audition, training and registration of Sports Coaches and athletes for national representative team of international games and regulations dealing with the over-registration are to be decided by the central competent authority.
The audition, training and registration of Sports Coaches and athletes for national representative team of the preceding paragraph should be fair, just, open and professional. Specified Sports Associations may not discriminate Coaches and athletes without justification or make disadvantages in audition, training and registration of Sports Coaches and athletes for national representative team.
As Specified Sports Associations dispatch team on behalf of the country to participate in international sports tournament, the sponsor contracts between the Association and the manufacturers should be based on international practice and consideration of the needs and interests of the contestants. In cases of athletes who has the individual sponsors, the Specified Sports Association, the players and the sponsors of both parties should consult before the competition and respect the special demand of the athlete, and shall not make an unfair agreement.
The central competent authority should establish the allowance system for the training and athletes of national representative team according to the level of each international games. Specified Sports Association should, when holding and participating in the professional profitable games, pay the registration fee.
Article 22
Competent authority at all levels should reward athletes, athletes with disabilities and their coaches with excellent performance in domestic or international athletic competitions, and individuals or groups with special contributions to physical education and sports. The objects, conditions, procedures, methods, revocation, abolition and rules and self-governing regulations for other matters shall be decided by the competent authorities at all levels.
The central authorities shall give counsel in employment to the athletes and disabled athletes who participate in international sports competitions and achieve excellent results. The qualifications, measures, duration, application and examination procedures, counseling methods and other related matters shall be set by the central authorities.
Athletes who have represented the national team who are civil servants can provide commercial endorsement with the approval of the agency(organization)they are employed by and shall not be subject to the regulations on business operation and part-time work of the Civil Servant Work Act; the rules on scope, restriction, procedure and other related matters of commercial endorsement shall be decided by the said agency(organization).
Article 23
The Specific Sports Association of the national representative team shall, during the training and participation period, apply for the necessary insurance for the athletes and team members who has been reported to the central competent authority for their coverage; their insurance coverage, items, contents and expenses and related matters shall be decided by the central competent authority.
The central competent authority shall issue a condolence to the athlete trained and the staff of the team for short-term disability, physical or mental disability or death due to training or participation. The object, condition, reference, recipient, procedures for the loss, application procedures, deadlines and other related matters shall be determined by the central competent authority.
Article 24
Competent authorities and sports organizations at all levels should maintain the health of athletes and promote sports competition. To strengthen the control of doping; its doping control education, advocacy, counseling, prevention, testing, treatment of violation, relief and other regulations are to be decided by the central competent authority.
Article 25
The organizations, institutions, schools, juridical persons and or associations shall prevent the occurrence of sports injuries in the event of exercise training, competition and all kinds of sports competitions. If necessary, they shall apply a physiotherapist or sports guard and consider medical needs. Hire a medical officer.
Article 26
The central competent authority should encourage the scientific research in sports for all ages and the cultivation of researchers in development and scientific in sports. It should instruct each organization, institution, school, juridical person and association to apply the science of sports in training. The condition, manners, dismissal, abolishment and other regulations of the encouragement are to be decided by the central competent authority.