Sports (Development and Control) Ordinance, 1962

The Sports (Development and Control) Ordinance, 1962 (Ordinance XVI of 1962) set up the legal framework for national sports governing boards in Pakistan. Section 1 (Part I) extends it to the whole of Pakistan and it came into force at once.

Section 2 defines "Sports" with a long list of specific disciplines — including Hockey, Football, Athletics, Wrestling, Cricket, Weight-lifting, Squash Rackets, Swimming, Boxing, Cycling, Basketball, Golf, Volleyball, Rifle Shooting, Table Tennis, Badminton, Lawn Tennis, Polo, Racing, Body-Building, Skiing, and Mountaineering — plus any other activity the Federal Government later specifies by Gazette notification. It also defines a "Board" as any board constituted under the Ordinance for controlling a sport in Pakistan.

Section 3 (Part II) lets the Federal Government, by Gazette notification, constitute one or more Boards to promote and develop internationally comparable competition standards and to regulate sports nationally; each Board is a body corporate with perpetual succession, a common seal, and power to acquire, hold, and dispose of property. Section 4 leaves each Board's name, constitution, powers, and functions to be determined by the Federal Government. Section 5 gives a Board the exclusive right to make rules and regulations to carry out its objects.

This is a framework/enabling law rather than a detailed regulatory code — it creates the mechanism for sports boards to be established and gives them corporate and rule-making powers, but leaves the substantive detail (board structure, specific rules) to be filled in by the Federal Government and each Board itself.