30 SEPTEMBER 2009 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 144

(3) A Rider shall not:

(a) wilfully or without reasonable cause break a riding engagement;

(b) permit himself to be engaged for more than one horse accepted or deemed to have been accepted for the same Race;

(c) fail to ride a horse at the weight at which it is handicapped to carry; or

(d) be represented by more than one Rider’s Agent.

(4) An Owner or lessee (as the case may be) or Trainer, and every Agent of an Owner or lessee (as the case may be) or Trainer, who has engaged a Rider to ride in a Race shall not, without reasonable cause, break such engagement.

(5) The provisions of sub-Rule (2), (3) and (4) of this Rule shall extend and apply to Apprentice Jockeys engaged as is authorised pursuant to Rule 336 and to sub-Rule (1) of this Rule.

(6) An employer of an Apprentice Jockey (or that employer’s Rider’s Agent, in the case of an Apprentice Jockey), and every Rider’s Agent, shall not:

(a) permit the Apprentice Jockey or Rider to be engaged to ride more than one horse accepted or deemed to have been accepted for the same Race; or

(b) without reasonable cause, break an engagement for his Apprentice Jockey or Rider to ride a horse in a Race.

RIDING FEES

331 (1) The fees payable to Riders shall be as from time to time determined and published by NZTR, unless there is a special arrangement providing for larger remuneration.

(2) Where a horse is disqualified from a Race by reason of the fault or misconduct of the Rider the applicable riding fee shall not be payable provided however that if the Judicial Committee is satisfied the disqualification is due to inexperience or inadvertence it may direct that the Rider be paid the applicable fee.

(3) NZTR, on behalf of a Club, shall issue any tax invoice, credit note or debit note required under the Goods and Services Tax Act 1985 and a Rider who is a person registered under that Act shall not issue any such tax invoice, credit note or debit note in respect of riding fees earned by him at a meeting. NZTR, on behalf of a Club, shall be deemed to agree that a Rider shall not issue any such tax invoice, credit note or debit note to it in respect of any such riding fees.

332 (1) NZTR shall pay the fees earned by a Rider other than an Apprentice Jockey at a Race Meeting within 45 days after the conclusion of the Race Meeting except that where the amount of such fees or any part of them is in doubt by reason of an inquiry held or pending, payment of such amount of the fees as may be in doubt shall be withheld until the inquiry and any appeals have been concluded. For the purposes of this Rule an inquiry shall be deemed to be held or to be pending when any test in relation to a horse placed by the Judge in a stake bearing place is made pursuant to any authority in these Rules relating to the administration to a horse of any drug and in such event NZTR shall withhold payment of fees in the same manner and for the same time as is provided by Rule 505(4) in respect of winnings.

(2) NZTR shall, subject to Part XIII of these Rules, dispose of the fees earned by each such Apprentice Jockey in the manner provided in the Agreement of Apprenticeship. Every such Agreement shall contain, and if it does not contain shall be conclusively presumed to contain, a provision to the effect that if the Apprentice is a person registered under the Goods and Services Tax Act 1985, NZTR shall pay to the Apprentice Jockey the amount of the Goods and Services Tax received by NZTR in respect of riding fees earned by the Apprentice and a further provision to the effect that if the employer of the Apprentice Jockey is a person so registered NZTR shall pay to such employer, out of the riding fees earned by the Apprentice Jockey, the employer’s agreed share of such riding fees and the Goods and Services Tax applicable to such agreed share.

(3) An employer and every Apprentice Jockey who accepts payment of such fees otherwise than through NZTR, shall forward the full amount of such payment to NZTR within seven days after receipt thereof by the employer or Apprentice Jockey.