Central Act

The National Anti-Doping Act, 2022

1[4. Anti-Doping Rule Violation.---Any one or more of the following circumstances or acts or conducts shall constitute Anti-Doping Rule Violation for the purposes of this Act, namely:--- (a) the presence of a prohibited substance or its metabolites or markers in an athletes sample, unless such presence is exempted under section 5; (b) use or attempted use by an athlete of any prohibited substance or any prohibited method, unless such use is exempted under section 5; (c) evading sample collection; or refusing or failing to submit to sample collection without compelling justification after notification by a duly authorised person; (d) whereabouts failures by an athlete as specified in the Code; (e) tampering or attempted tampering with any part of doping control by an athlete or other person; (f) possession of any prohibited substance or any prohibited method by an athlete or athlete support personnel, unless such possession is exempted under section 5; (g) trafficking or attempted trafficking in any prohibited substance or prohibited method by an athlete or other person; (h) administration or attempted administration by an athlete or other person to any athlete in-competition of any prohibited substance or prohibited method, or administration or attempted administration to any athlete out-of-competition of any prohibited substance or any prohibited method that is prohibited out-of-competition; (i) assisting, encouraging, aiding, abetting, conspiring, covering up or any other type of intentional complicity or attempted complicity involving an Anti-Doping Rule Violation, attempted Anti-Doping Rule Violation or violation of the prohibition against participation during ineligibility or provisional suspension by any other person; (j) prohibited association by an athlete or other person as the Agency may specify by regulations; (k) acts by an athlete or other person to discourage or retaliate against reporting to authorities.]