Under new statutes set to be formally approved tomorrow, the Government-arm would have the power to dissolve the Kuwait Olympic Committee (KOC) as well as any sporting club or National Federation.

It would also assume control of decisions made by these bodies, including over appointments and financial matters.

If confirmed, this will cast Kuwait further into the global sporting wilderness, with the Gulf nation already suspended from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and thus ineligible to compete at August’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Kuwaiti athletes who have already qualified will be able to compete independently under the Olympic flag, the IOC have said, but no others will be permitted after attempts to reach an agreement failed earlier this year.

Any hope that the Government may back-down in time for the ban to be lifted now appears to have been crushed.

Article 11 of the Statutes proposes that the PSA, whose chairman is Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, the Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs. has the power to cancel any decision made by either the Board or General Assembly of the KOC or any club, National Federation or other sporting organisation.

Article 12 gives the PSA permission to dissolve any of these bodies when it is in the “public interest” to do so.

Article 27 permits them to interfere and overrule all technical, financial, structural and administrative decisions made.

Article 30 rules that any individual within these bodies who refuses to comply by these new rules will face jail terms of a minimum and one and a maximum of three years.

The changes have supposedly been proposed to reduce sporting corruption in Kuwait.

But this essentially marks a complete concession of independent sporting power, a further violation of IOC rules on autonomy that saw the suspension imposed last year.

It also continues the country’s sporting isolation because if, for example, the Kuwait Football Association was to follow the rules of FIFA rather than the Government body, the individuals concerned would now face jail.

insidethegames understands that a meeting was held on May 29 between officials from the KOC, IOC, World Anti-Doping Agency, Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) and the Kuwait City-based Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) with Government officials in order to amend Kuwaiti laws to resolve its non-compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code.

This was seemingly agreed, but the new Statutes will deem it non-compliant once again.

A refusal to recognise either WADA or the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was a key reason why the IOC ban was introduced last year, and had been one of the criteria considered vital for its removal.

Kuwaiti authorities have frequently clashed with sports bodies in recent years, with a previous IOC suspension lifted shortly before the London 2012 Olympic Games.

But the latest eruption is connected to a personal feud between Sheikh Salman and his cousin Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti IOC member who is also President of both the OCA and ANOC.

Sheikh Salman resigned as head of the Asian Shooting Confederation last year after standing unsuccessfully against Mexico's Olegario Vazquez Raña to become head of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) in 2014, an election he lost by 165 votes to 128.

insidethegames exclusively reported on the eve of the election that he had been allegedly using his Government position to illegally collect votes.

Sheikh Salman blamed Sheikh Ahmad for his defeat and for spreading these allegations.

It is thought that he is keen to cement his authority and remove rivals ahead of Parliamentary elections in June 2017.

Article Five of the new Statutes also stipulates that a shooting club owned by Sheikh Salman must be recognised as the national federation for the sport, a decision the ISSF appears certain to oppose.

Sheikh Ahmad and his brother, KOC and KFA President Sheikh Talal Al-Fahad Al Sabah - have already been handed fines and lawsuits earlier this year for supposedly complying with international governing bodies.