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"race meeting" shall have the meanings ascribed to those terms, respectively by section 2 of the Racing Act 1971, and the word "bookmaker" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto by the Gaming Act 1908 or any subsequent Act consolidating or in substitution of such Act.

3. The following persons shall be, and are hereby, excluded from all racecourses used by racing clubs which are now, or may at any time hereafter be, registered with the New Zealand Greyhound Racing Association (Inc.) while such racecourses, or any thereof, are being used by any club for a race meeting, namely:

(a) All persons under disqualification imposed under the New Zealand Rules of Racing or the New Zealand Rules of Trotting or the New Zealand Rules of Greyhound Racing or by the racing or trotting or greyhound authorities in any country outside New Zealand which have reciprocal agreements in matters of racing or trotting or greyhound racing with the New Zealand Racing Conference or the New Zealand Trotting Conference or the New Zealand Greyhound Racing Association (Inc.).

(b) Bookmakers.

(c) Persons convicted of theft, burglary, receiving stolen goods, robbery, unlawful taking or conversion of a motorcar or other vehicle, false pretences, forgery, uttering, possession of counterfeit coin, or assault.

(d) Persons convicted of any offence under the Gaming Act 1908 or of any of the following offences under the Crimes Act 1961: murder, attempted murder, manslaughter (not based on negligence), sections 188-204 (which relate to assaults and injuries to the person), section 294-297 (which relate to arson or attempted threat), crimes involving dishonesty or conspiracy to commit a crime, indecent acts, sexual offences, and the reference to the foregoing Acts shall be deemed to apply to any subsequent Act consolidating or in substitution thereof.

(e) Persons convicted of any offence against any of the paragraphs of subsection (1) of section 5 of the Narcotics Act 1965 or against any of the paragraphs of subsection (1) of section 6 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, and the reference to the foregoing Acts shall be deemed to apply to any subsequent Act consolidating or the substitution thereof.

(f) Persons convicted in countries outside New Zealand of offences corresponding to those mentioned in paragraph (d) or paragraph (e).

Provided always that a committee established by the New Zealand Greyhound Racing Association (Inc.) upon being satisfied as to the character and otherwise that any person who, by reason of any conviction, comes within the scope of these rules should have relief from the effect thereof, may grant exemption to any such person.

4. The rules previously made by the New Zealand Greyhound Racing Association (Inc.) under section 101 of the Racing Act 1971, and which were published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 117, of 18 November 1976, on p. 2610, shall be deemed to have been revoked at midnight on the day on which these rules are published in the said New Zealand Gazette, and shall thereafter have effect for the purpose only of determining the eligibility under the said Rules of Racing of Greyhounds which started in races under the said Rules Greyhound Racing at any time before midnight on the day on which these rules are published in the said New Zealand Gazette. In every other respect such revoked rules shall thereafter have no effect.

Dated at Wellington this 27th day of July 1978.

D. A. HIGHET, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Consent to the Distribution of New Therapeutic Drugs

Pursuant to section 12 of the Food and Drug Act 1969, the Minister of Health hereby consents to the distribution in New Zealand of the new therapeutic drugs set out in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE

Dated this 24th day of July 1978.

FRANK GILL, Minister of Health.