Sports Act to be Amended by September

In 2006 that Sri Lanka has been told to amend the sports act and meet the IOC requirements.

Minister of sports Dayasiri Jayasekara said that he twice raised the matter of amending the sports act  with IOC officials while in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

He accused his predecessors in the past 10 years of not having fulfilled their promises to the NOC to resolve issues in the sports act. He warned  possible loss of IOC membership, if we don’t amend the sports act,  which will be amended and gazetted by September, says sports minister.

Jayasekara said the agreement was reached at a meeting he had yesterday (17) with NOC chief Hemasiri Fernando, deputy solicitor general Sumathi Dharmawardena and other officials.