Purpose
Under section 32 of the Integrity Sport and Recreation Act 2023 (the Act), the Sport Integrity Commission Te Kahu Raunui (the Commission) has the ability to investigate matters to which neither section 31 of the Act (which covers possible breaches of the Integrity Code) or the anti-doping rules apply, if:
If it chooses to open an investigation under section 32, then the Commission will be able to exercise its powers of information gathering under section 34 of the Act with the ability to enforce those powers through the District Court in the event of a failure to comply.
The purpose of the policy is to set out the matters that the Commission will take into account in assessing the public interest element of opening an investigation under section 32.
Statutory criteria
Under the Act, the Commission must take into account:
Additional criteria
In addition, the Commission may decide to take into account the following:
The above list of additional criteria is not intended to be exhaustive and the Commission may also choose to take into account any other matter which it considers relevant to an assessment of public interest.