INACTIVE sports associations will 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.

He said his ministry took the matter seriously as about 70% (over 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 December 31, 2021, 217 (1.9%) were at the national level, 1,432 (12.5%) at the state level, 1,636 (14.3%) at the district level and 8,184 (71.3%) at the club level.

“KBS (Ministry of Youth and Sports) through PJS is conducting a Sports Body Star Rating on all registered sports bodies. Associations need to submit reports to PJS annually after holding their annual general meeting (AGM), for us to evaluate 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 inactivex,” he told Bernama after the recording an interview for Bernama TV’s Ruang Bicara programme last night.

Ti said KBS 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 KBS also found that there were also sports organisations that were not registered under PJS, and instead registered under the Registrar of Societies (ROS) or the Registrar of Companies (ROC).

He said these organisations would also will be not let off the hook if they were found to have flouted any laws. – Bernama, January 29, 2022.