Philippine Sports Commission Establishment Act

State policy and unified sports program

Section 2 declares it to be the policy of the State to promote physical education and encourage and sustain sports development in the country.
Section 2 requires that sports promotion should foster physical fitness, self-discipline, teamwork, and excellence for a healthy and alert citizenry.
Section 2 establishes a unified national sports promotion and development program as the mechanism for national sports development.
Section 2 provides that a single, unified, integrated national sports policy-making body will further these objectives.

Creation, status, and corporate nature

Section 3 creates a body corporate named the Philippine Sports Commission (“Commission”).
Section 4 attaches the Commission to the Office of the President as a governmental regulatory national agency.
Section 4 provides that the Chairman is at the same level as a department undersecretary and the Commissioners are at the level of department assistant secretaries.
Section 5 provides that the Commission has corporate powers, including the power to have a seal, sue and be sued, and act as the sole policy-making and coordinating body for all amateur sports development programs and institutions in the Philippines.
Section 5 requires that school sports development programs be formulated and implemented by the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS) with assistance of the Commission within the framework of the national sports development program.

Objectives and Commission functions

Section 6 requires the Commission to provide leadership, formulate policies, and set priorities and direction for national amateur sports promotion and development, with emphasis on grass-roots participation.
Section 6 requires the Commission to encourage wide participation of all sectors—government and private—in amateur sports promotion and development.
Section 6 requires the Commission to supplement government appropriations for sports promotion and development.
Section 7 directs the Commission to plan, implement, and oversee an integrated amateur sports promotion and development program for the country, including the program for the Decade of Physical Fitness and Sports: 1990-2000 under Presidential Proclamation No. 406, in coordination with specified sports stakeholders.
Section 7 requires the Commission to establish and maintain linkages with international sports associations, national sports commissions/organizations of other countries, and international nongovernmental organizations whose main objective is sports.
Section 7 requires the Commission to plan and oversee a program enabling the Philippines to bid for and host the Olympic Games at the earliest practicable time.
Section 7 requires the Commission to establish, develop, and maintain fully-equipped sports facilities and centers in strategic places, including modern sports complexes adequate for major international competitions, as far as practicable.
Section 7 requires the Commission to rationalize and regulate publicly-funded sports complexes and supervise management and maintenance thereof, excluding school or college-owned sports complexes.
Section 7 authorizes the Commission to plan and formulate programs and review or evaluate its organizational set-up, projects, and programs from time to time.
Section 7 requires the Commission to develop and promulgate rules and regulations to implement the Act, including rules delineating responsibilities among sectors involved in sports promotion and development.
Section 7 requires the Commission to assist proper government agencies in formulating an industry incentives program for manufacturing sports equipment and supplies of international standard in the Philippines.
Section 7 authorizes the Commission to provide incentives, recognition, and awards to deserving associations, athletes, referees, game officials, coaches, trainers, and other persons or entities involved in or supporting sports development as permissible under rules of amateurism.
Section 7 requires the Commission to recommend to the Department of Education, Culture and Sports, Department of Local Government, and other agencies with sports programs to incorporate in their annual budgets a separate and specific budget for sports promotion and development.
Section 7 requires the Commission to conduct basic and applied research on sports development.
Section 7 authorizes promotion and fund-raising campaigns in accordance with existing laws to achieve the Commission’s purposes.
Section 7 requires the Commission to encourage, promote, and sustain regional, provincial, municipal, and barangay or school district sports promotion and development councils composed of specified officials and private sector representatives.
Section 7 authorizes the Commission to exercise other acts incident to or appropriate and necessary to create and carry out its functions.

Commission leadership and staffing

Section 8 provides that the Commission has a Chairman and four (4) Commissioners, all appointed by the President.
Section 9 requires the Chairman and Commissioners to be Filipino citizens, publicly-recognized personalities in sports, at least thirty (30) years of age, and of good moral character.
Section 10 provides that the Chairman receives annual compensation and other benefits and privileges under existing laws for an undersecretary of a department, and that Commissioners receive those for assistant secretaries.
Section 11 empowers the Commission to do all acts necessary to perform its functions.
Section 14 establishes an Executive Director appointed or designated by the Chairman, preferably from among the four Commissioners, to direct and supervise day-to-day operations.
Section 14 provides that the Executive Director supervises a bureau on administrative services headed by a Deputy Executive Director and a bureau on coordinating secretariat and support services headed by a Deputy Executive Director.
Section 14 provides that Deputy Executive Directors are appointed by the Chairman.
Section 15 requires the Executive Director and Deputy Executive Directors to be Filipino citizens, at least twenty-five (25) years of age, of good moral character, college graduates, and with at least five (5) years experience in sports administration.
Section 16 assigns administrative services primarily to financial management, personnel, records, supplies, and equipment, and assigns the coordinating secretariat and support services bureau primarily to plans and programs formulation, research, EDP and system management, public information and production, transportation, communications, and other needed responsibilities.
Section 17 provides that staff, officers, and employees of the Commission are appointed by the Chairman.

Olympic Committee and sports associations

Section 12 recognizes the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) as the National Olympic Committee for the Philippines and affirms its affiliation with the International Olympic Committee.
Section 12 provides that the POC is autonomous in character.
Section 12 requires the POC to maintain primary responsibility for Olympic and specified regional and international participation—Olympic Games, Asian Games, Southeast Asian Games, and other international athletic competitions—according to the rules of the relevant international and regional sports bodies.
Section 13 recognizes national sports associations organized for their respective sports in the Philippines and/or affiliated with their respective international federations recognized by the International Olympic Committee.
Section 13 provides that recognized national sports associations are autonomous and have exclusive technical control over promotion and development of their sport, subject to the Commission’s supervisory and visitorial powers under Section 11, paragraph (j).
Section 13 requires national sports associations to determine their organization and membership through their Constitution and By-Laws.
Section 13 prohibits admission as a voting member of a national sports association for any team, school, club, organization, or entity unless sixty percent (60%) of the athletes composing it are Filipino Citizens.
Section 13 enumerates functions, powers, duties, and responsibilities of national sports associations, including adopting constitutions/by-laws not inconsistent with those of the POC, raising funds, property transactions for their purposes, affiliating with international/regional sports associations, conducting competitions, appointing representatives to the POC, deciding amateur status and discipline, settling disputes, adopting training programs in coordination with the POC, selecting national team athletes and officials considering athletic ability and discipline and character factors, maintaining accurate records and furnishing copies to the POC, qualifying and licensing referees/umpires and other game officials, and performing other acts necessary for their purposes.
Section 11 authorizes the Commission to assist and support national associations in implementing Section 13 and to confer incentives and support to sports associations in good standing with the Commission.

Commission powers and regulation

Section 11 authorizes the Commission to appoint officers and personnel and fix compensation subject to existing laws, rules, and regulations.
Section 11 authorizes the Commission to delegate authority for performance of any function to officers and employees under its direction.
Section 11 authorizes the Commission to enter into contracts.
Section 11 authorizes the Commission to acquire, use, and control land, buildings, facilities, equipment, instruments, tools, and rights required for the Commission’s purposes.
Section 11 authorizes the Commission to acquire, own, possess, and dispose of real or personal property.
Section 11 authorizes the Commission to regulate acquisition, procurement, distribution, and use of sportswear, equipment, instruments, tools, and other sports necessities required for training a national pool of athletes.
Section 11 authorizes the Commission to confer, extend, and grant awards, benefits, and privileges to athletes, coaches, and officials for outstanding performances in national and international competitions.
Section 11 authorizes the Commission to confer, extend, and grant support or assistance to sports associations in good standing.
Section 11 authorizes the Commission to exercise supervisory and visitorial powers over national sports associations with respect to which financial assistance is extended by the Commission.
Section 11 authorizes the Commission to accept donations, gifts, bequests, and grants for Commission purposes.
Section 11 requires the Commission to ensure implementation by government departments and agencies of their sports promotion and development programs indicated in their annual budgets.
Section 11 authorizes the Commission to impose sanctions upon national sports associations, institutions, associations, bodies, entities, teams, athletes, and sports officials for violation of its policies, rules, and regulations.
Section 11 authorizes the Commission to perform any and all other acts incident to or required by virtue of its creation.

Taxes, land grants, facilities, and funding

Section 18 prohibits any tax of any kind from being levied on the use of sports facilities—whether the tax be on the user, owner, or operator of the sports facility—to encourage popular participation in amateur sports.
Section 19 exempts the Commission from customs duties, taxes, and tariffs on importation of sportswear, equipment, supplies, instruments, and materials, including donated items, that are of international sports standard not available from local manufacturers, and only in numbers required for developing various sports and/or training the national pool of athletes.
Section 19 extends the importation exemption to items donated to the Philippine Olympic Committee and, through the Commission, to national sports associations certified under oath by the Commission to be required and necessary for sports development in the country.
Section 21 exempts the Commission and its delegations/representatives and athletes/coaches/other officials from travel tax, airport tax, and other travel-related taxes or fees now or hereafter imposed by law or regulation when participating in international sports conventions or competitions.
Section 22 authorizes the President, upon recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, to grant portions of public domain land to the Commission by donation, sale, lease, or otherwise for establishing regional training centers in all regions and for accomplishing any Commission purposes.
Section 23 transfers to the Commission the administration and full control of all existing sports facilities (including land, buildings, and equipment) owned by the national government and those owned by government-funded foundations, associations, and entities, except liabilities.
Section 23 keeps sports facilities owned by local government units, state colleges and universities, or public schools with those institutions/entities.
Section 23 transfers to the Commission upon effectivity of the Act management and full control of the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex and the Quezon City Velodrome.
Section 23 grants the Commission full control and management of the University of Life Sports Complex two (2) years from effectivity of the Act, and grants full use and access to facilities immediately upon organization and start of operations of the Commission.
Section 23 defines included University of Life Sports Complex sports and related facilities: (a) grandstands, tennis and basketball courts, stadium oval and track and field, swimming pools, pool grandstand and viewing rooms, and related equipment/accessories; (b) ten (10) dormitory buildings, nos. A to J; (c) substations, airconditioning building, control rooms, switch houses and light towers, centralized airconditioning system, standby generators and PABX telephone system; and (d) all other sports-related equipment and support facilities.
Section 23 requires continuation of existing support and financial assistance for non-formal education from the University of Life Sports Complex with an annual increase not exceeding ten percent (10%) per year up to December 31, 1992.
Section 24 authorizes the Commission to call upon any government entity for assistance and enjoins all heads of departments, agencies, corporations, and offices to render full assistance and cooperation to attain objectives and ensure the national sports development program’s success.
Section 25 abolishes the Gintong Alay Foundation, Project: Gintong Alay, and all other government-funded foundations and associations related to sports, and transfers their functions, applicable appropriations, records, equipment, property, rights, claims, and incidental things necessary except liabilities to the Commission.
Section 25 requires abolished sports-related government-funded foundations and associations to turn over properties and functions to the Commission and wind up their affairs within six (6) months after effectivity of the Act.
Section 25 requires absorption of employees of abolished agencies, particularly rank and file, by the Commission to the extent administratively feasible.
Section 26 appropriates Twenty-five million pesos (P25,000,000.00) from the National Treasury for the Commission’s organizational and initial calendar year operational expenditures.
Section 26 limits operating expenses for the Commission itself to not more than twenty percent (20%) of the annual appropriation, and requires that at least eighty percent (80%) of the annual appropriation and all national sports development funds be disbursed for the national sports program, particularly for identification, recruitment, and training of athletes in preregional, regional, national, and international competitions including the Decade of Physical Fitness and Sports: 1990-2000.
Section 26 establishes the National Sports Development Fund by constituting specified revenue streams as automatically remitted directly to the Commission, including thirty percent (30%) of the charity fund of proceeds of six (6) sweepstakes or lottery draws per annum, taxes on horse races during special holidays, five percent (5%) of gross income of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation, proceeds from the sale of stamps as provided, and three percent (3%) of all taxes collected on imported athletic equipment.
Section 26 authorizes the Philippine Postal Service Office to print paper and gold stamps depicting sports events and other motif as it decides at the expense of the Commission.
Section 26 provides that any deficiency in the Commission’s financial requirements for its sports development program is covered by an annual appropriation passed by Congress.

Rules on repeals and effectivity

Section 27 repeals or modifies all laws, presidential decrees, executive orders, presidential proclamations, rules and regulations, or parts thereof, inconsistent with Republic Act No. 6847.
Section 28 provides separability: if any provision is declared unconstitutional, the other provisions remain valid and effective.
Section 29 requires effectivity upon approval and publication completion in at least two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.