COMMENT | Tragic death should lead to reconsideration of sporting events legislation.
| Today, April 13, 2019, would have been Evelyn Ang’s 46th birthday if not for the tragic incident which took her life last year.
It took a tragedy to expose another. Evelyn’s accident and subsequent death also awoke the sports community to the stark reality that the Sports Development Act 1997 was highly insufficient and in need of revamp. It was assumed all these while, that a breach of Section 36 will be liable for punishment stipulated under Section 39, “General Offence”:
The question was, how can sports events be better organised to ensure the safety, security and well-being of participants? 36 “Where an offence under this section has been committed by a company, any person who at the time of the commission of the offence was a director, chief executive officer, chief operating officer, manager, secretary or similar officer of the company or was purporting to act in any such capacity or was in any manner or to any extent responsible for the management of any of the affairs of the company or was assisting in such management - where the company is found guilty of the offence, shall...
On Dec 13, 2018, Sim chaired a meeting at the Sports Commissioner’s office to finalise the Sports Development Regulations 2019 to make sure that the intention and will of Parliament in passing the amended Act 576 were reflected in the procedures stipulated in the Regulations. I remember how we went through the document line-by-line.
4) Among others, the licence granted shall only be for the specific sporting activities applied for and in the place or premise stipulated in the approval.
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