About ASADA
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) is a government statutory authority that is Australia's driving force for pure performance in sport.
ASADA's mission is to protect Australia's sporting integrity through the elimination of doping.
To achieve its mission ASADA focuses on three key themes - to deter, detect, and enforce:
- ASADA deters prohibited doping practices in sport via education, doping control (testing), advocacy and the coordination of Australia's anti-doping program;
- ASADA detects a breach of a sport's anti-doping policy via its doping control (testing) and investigation programs; and
- ASADA enforces any breach of a policy by ensuring those violating anti-doping rules are prosecuted and sanctioned.
ASADA's head office is in Canberra. It operates under strict corporate governance guidelines and reports to the Minister for Sport.
Our purpose
To protect Australia's sporting integrity through the elimination of doping.
Our Vision
Australia’s driving force for pure performance in sport.
ASADA's purpose, as described above, is to protect Australia's sporting integrity through the elimination of doping.
The following is a list of functions that ASADA performs, and the powers that allow ASADA to achieve them.
Functions:
(a) such functions as are conferred on the ASADA by Part 2
(b) such functions as are conferred on the ASADA by the NAD scheme
(c) to advise the ASC about sports drug and safety matters that should be included in any agreement
under which the ASC gives money to a sporting organisation
(d) to advise the ASC about recognising a sporting organisation as being responsible for
administering the affairs of a sport, or of a substantial part or section of a sport, in Australia
(e) to support, encourage, develop and implement initiatives that increase the skills and knowledge
of people involved in sporting activities about sports drug and safety matters
(f) to support and encourage the sporting community to develop and implement comprehensive
programs, and education initiatives, about sports drug and safety matters
(g) to support, encourage and conduct research about sports drug and safety matters
(h) to collect, analyse, interpret and disseminate information about sports drug and safety matters
(i) to encourage the development of ways for the states and territories, and sporting organisations,
to carry out initiatives about sports drug and safety matters
(j) to cooperate with the states and territories, and with sporting organisations, to carry out initiatives
about sports drug and safety matters
(k) to provide the following services under contract on behalf of the Commonwealth:
- anti-doping testing services
- safety checking services
- other services (including information technology services) relating to sports drug and
safety matters
(l) to make resources and facilities (including secretariat services and clerical assistance) available
to the ASDMAC for the purposes of enabling the ASDMAC to perform its functions
(m) such other functions as are conferred on the ASADA by this Act or any other law
of the Commonwealth
(n) to advise the Minister about matters relating to any of the above functions
(o) to do anything incidental to or conducive to the performance of any of the above functions.
Powers:
(1) The ASADA has power to do all things necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection
with the performance of its functions, other than the power:
- (a) to acquire, hold and dispose of real and personal property, or
- (b) to enter into contracts, or Section 47 – Delegations:
(1) The ASADA may, by writing, delegate any or all of its functions and powers to:
- a) an ASADA member, or
- (b) a committee consisting of two or more ASADA members, or
- (c) a member of the ASADA staff, or
- (d) an individual whose services are made available to the ASADA under section 50, or
- (e) an individual appointed as a chaperone, or as a drug testing official, under the
NAD scheme.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the power to make an instrument amending the
NAD scheme.
(3) Paragraphs (1)(a), (c), (d) and (e) do not apply to a function or power conferred by
the NAD scheme if the function or power is declared by the NAD scheme to be a
function or power that can only be delegated to a committee consisting of two or more
ASADA members.
(4) Paragraph (1)(e) does not apply to a function or power unless it is conferred by the
NAD scheme.
(5) A delegate must comply with any written directions of the ASADA.
(6) The ASADA must cause to be kept written records of a decision of a committee consisting
of two or more ASADA members if:
- (a) the committee has been delegated a function or power under paragraph (1)(b), and
- (b) the decision relates to the delegated function or power.
(7) A record kept under subsection (6) is prima facie evidence that the decision was duly
made as recorded if the record is signed by an ASADA member who was a member of
the committee at the time when the decision was made.
(8) A record kept under subsection (6) is not a legislative instrument.
