WHEREAS, it is found necessary to facilitate the participation of the community in different sport activities at residential areas, schools and working places and to this end to promote the expansion and preservation of sport facilities;

WHEREAS, the availability of sport facilities in different areas in the required number and quality creates conducive environment for maintaining the health, enhancing physical fitness, cultivating the brain of the community and in particular the youth, and there by enable them to contribute for the development of the country;

WHEREAS, to achieve the objectives and ends of sport, it has been found necessary to issue a legislation which provides for the establishment, administration, regulation and legal protection of sport facilities that meet the required standards;

NOW, THEREFORE, in accordance with Article 55 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, it is hereby proclaimed as follows: