PARLIAMENT | Putrajaya is seeking to grant a minister the power to revoke the registration of sports bodies deemed detrimental to national security, public order, or morality.

The clause was detailed in a bill on proposed amendments to the Sports Development Act 1997, which Youth and Sports Minister Taufiq Johari tabled in Parliament yesterday.

Following its second reading today, 31 MPs are expected to present their debates on the bill.

Under the proposed Section 41A, a minister in charge of sports may, after consulting the sports commissioner, issue a gazetted declaration that any sports body believed to be used for “purposes prejudicial to or incompatible with” national security, public order, or morality is unlawful.