(i) To encourage,
promote, develop and control amateur athletics in Jamaica amongst
all sections of the community and amongst all Jamaican citizens.
(ii) To arrange and
provide for or join in arranging and providing for the holding of
courses for the instruction and teaching of athletics to teachers,
coaches, instructors, athletes, officials, athletic administrators
and any other persons and for the holding of meetings, lectures
and classes calculated directly or indirectly to further the
objects of the Association.
(iii) To promote
and organise or assist in promoting and organising the holding of
amateur athletic meetings, championships, competitions,
demonstrations and events, to select competitors to represent
Jamaica or the Association and to pay the expenses of persons so
selected and to enter into any agreements and to make any
arrangements which may be necessary or convenient in connection
therewith or with any of the objects of the Association and to do
all or any of the above things either alone or in conjunction with
other person or persons or any other association.
(iv) To lay down
and enforce rules and regulations covering all aspects of amateur
athletics, to improve the management of athletic meetings by the
establishment of uniform regulations to define the status and
prescribe the conduct of amateur athletes, and to deal
repressively with any abuses in amateur athletics.
(v) To give prizes,
medals and other awards and to obtain, collect and receive money
and funds by way of contributions, donations, subscriptions,
legacies, grants or any other lawful method, and to accept and to
receive gifts of property of any description for or towards the
objects of the Association or any of them.
(vi) To procure to
be written or made and print, publish, issue, exhibit and
circulate gratuitously or otherwise any reports, periodicals,
books, pamphlets, leaflets, films, photographs, instructional
matter or any other such documents or things as may be thought
expedient in connection with the objects of the Association or any
of them.
(vii) To purchase,
take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire, any real
or personal property and any rights or privileges which the
Association may think necessary or convenient for the promotion of
its objects, and to construct, maintain and alter any buildings or
erections necessary or convenient for the work of the Association.
(viii) To sell,
let, mortgage, dispose of or turn to account all or any of the
property or assets of the Association as may be thought expedient
with a view to the promotion of its objects.
(ix) To undertake
and execute any trusts which may lawfully be undertaken by the
Association and may be conducive to its objects.
(x) To borrow or
raise money for the purpose of the Association on such terms and
on such security as may be thought fit.
(xi) To invest the
monies of the Association not immediately required for its
purposes in or upon such investments, securities or property as
may be thought fit.
(xii) To provide
for the welfare of employees and ex-employees of the Association
by grants of money, pensions or otherwise.
(xiii) To procure
and maintain the affiliation of the Association to the
International Amateur Athletic Federation and to such other
international or other body as to the Association shall seem
incidental or conducive to the Association’s objects or any of
them.
(xiv) To accept and
declare records for athletic events held in Jamaica or for
athletic performances achieved by Jamaican citizens or by athletes
eligible to represent Jamaica in international competition.
(xv) To do all such other things as are
incidental or conducive to the attainment of the objects of the
Association or any of them.
