UPGRADING AND STRENGTHENING AMATEUR SPORTS AND PROVIDING INCENTIVES THEREFOR.

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 1470
• Sections: 6

Preamble

WHEREAS, it is the declared policy to vigorously pursue a

comprehensive national amateur sports development program, as enunciated under

Presidential Decree No. 604 dated December 10, 1974;

WHEREAS, it is found that the amateur sports development

thrust is being weakened by the indiscriminate practice of recruiting promising

amateur players into the professional ranks;

WHEREAS, it is vital to the development and growth of

amateur sports that there be a meaningful and effective measure to upgrade the

standards of amateurism and improve the quality of amateur players consistent

with our commitments to participate in regional and international

competitions.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the

Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution, do hereby

order and decree as follows:

Section 1 Recruitment of Amateurs.

SECTION 1. Recruitment of Amateurs.—No amateur

player shall be recruited into the professional ranks and no professional shall

be given or reverted to amateur status without the recommendation of the

national sports association concerned and prior approval of the Department of

Youth and Sports Development (DYSD). For this purpose, the national sports

association, considering its particular requirements, shall promulgate the

pertinent guidelines and applicable rules and regulations governing the change

of status, and formulate such incentive schemes to encourage amateurism, subject

to the approval of DYSD.

Section 2 National Pool of Athletes.

SECTION 2. National Pool of Athletes.—The

accredited national sports association shall maintain, through the supervision

and support of the National Youth and Sports Development Foundation created

under Presidential Decree No.1289 dated January 25, 1978, a national pool of

athletes for each sport, as may be recommended by the National Sports

Association and approved by DYSD, to effect a coordinated and continuing program

of training and development of the maximum potential of athletes cognizant of

international performance standards.

The National Sports Association concerned shall be principally responsible in

the recruitment, selection and raining of athletes to compose the national pool

from whose ranks shall be drawn the national representatives in regional and

international competitions, subject to the supervision of DYSD.

Section 3 Separability Clause.

SECTION 3. Separability Clause.—If any provision of

this Decree is declared unconstitutional, the same shall apply only to the

provision and the remainder hereof remains valid.

Section 4 Repealing Clause.

SECTION 4. Repealing Clause.—All laws, decrees,

executive orders, rules and regulations which are inconsistent herewith are

hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

Section 5 Effectivity.

SECTION 5. Effectivity.—This Decree shall take

effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 11th day of June, in the Year of Our Lord,

nineteen hundred and seventy-eight.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the

Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA

Presidential

Assistant