4. Offence of match fixing in sports

any person or any person connected to a sport—

engages in betting, gambling or any other activity involving financial or any other advantage to himself or another person, or causes a financial disadvantage or loss to another person knowing that it would corrupt any sport or sporting event;

acts in a manner that ensures the occurrence of any improper performance, act, omission or an outcome, which is the subject of an illegal bet relating to a sport or any sporting event;

provides for financial or any other advantage, reward or benefit, any inside information relating to a sport, any sporting event or any person, to any person including a betting operator, other than in connection with bona fide media interviews and commitments;

provides or receives any gift, payment, reward or benefit, financial or otherwise, that might reasonably be expected to bring such person or any sport or sporting event into disrepute; or

engages in any act or omission that is directly or indirectly related to any of the conduct specified in the preceding paragraphs and is prejudicial to the interests of any sport or sporting event;

any individual player or a group of players—

receives money or any other reward or benefit individually or collectively to underperform or to withdraw from such sport or sporting event for non-genuine reasons; or

bets on such sport or sporting event in which such player or group of players plays undermining the performance;

any umpire, match adjudicator or match referee deliberately misapplies the rules of the sport or sporting event for money or any other reward or benefit;

any curator or any member of any venue staff, ground staff or support staff receives money or any other reward or benefit—

to prepare any turf, ground or playing surface of any sport or sporting event in a way agreeable to any person including a betting operator; or

to disclose information of the preparation and condition of the turf, ground or playing surface of any sport or sporting event; or

any person including a retired player or any person connected to a sport is utilized by any other person to gain access to local or foreign players in order to influence their performance for money or any other reward or benefit, commits the offence of match fixing in sports.

of subsection (1) commits the offence of tournament fixing in sports.