3402 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 144 30 SEPTEMBER 2009

521 Entries shall not become void on the death of an Owner or lessee.

522 Any trivial error or violation of this Part V of the Rules in relation to the entry, acceptance, withdrawal or scratching of a horse may be corrected or remedied with the permission of NZTR.

ELIGIBILITY OF HORSES FOR RACES

523 A horse shall not be eligible to be entered for a Race until it is one year old.

524 A horse shall not be eligible to run in a Race unless it has been duly entered in accordance with these Rules by the person entitled to enter it, and a horse prohibited by these Rules from being, or which is not eligible to be, entered for a Race shall not be entered.

525 (1) The horses mentioned in sub-Rule (2) of this Rule are hereby:

(a) prohibited from being trained upon a Racecourse or Training Facility; and

(b) deemed to be ineligible to be entered for or to start in a Race, and any such horse which is entered for or starts in a Race shall be liable to any penalty which may be imposed pursuant to Rule 803 and the person who entered the horse in that Race commits a breach of these Rules.

(2) A horse is subject to the disabilities contained in sub-Rule (1) of this Rule if it is:

(a) a horse affected by an unregistered Ownership or lessee interest;

(b) a disqualified horse, during the period of its disqualification;

(c) subject to sub-Rule (6) below, a horse owned by:

(i) a person holding a Class B or C Rider’s Licence or, except as is provided by Rule 333, a person holding a Class A or D Rider’s Licence;

(ii) a person whose last Licence was cancelled, withdrawn or revoked;

(iii) a person undergoing a period of disqualification imposed under these Rules or the official rules of Another Racing Authority;

(iv) a person whose name appears for the time being in the Arrears List or in the Thoroughbred Racing Monthly in respect of any entry in such list, or in the list of arrears of Another Racing Authority;

(v) a person who is or has been an illegal bookmaker or an illegal bookmaker’s clerk or agent; and/or

(vi) a person who is excluded from entering a Racecourse pursuant to Rules made under section 34 of the Racing Act 2003;

(d) a horse blind in an eye;

(e) a horse whose registration has been cancelled;

(f) a horse which is owned by a Legal Ownership Entity which has failed to declare all persons having a legal and/or beneficial interest in that horse, or to provide information or evidence requested by NZTR under Rules 406(d), 428 and/or 430;

(g) a horse who has had a neurectomy operation performed on one or more of its legs; or

(h) a horse prohibited from being entered in or started in any Race by any of these Rules.

(3) A horse owned by a person who at or in connection with a Race Meeting is appointed or acts as Handicapper, Clerk of the Scales, Starter, Judge or Veterinarian shall not be eligible to be entered for or to start in a Race at that Race Meeting and a horse which is entered for or starts in a Race at the Race Meeting shall be, in addition to any other penalty which may be imposed, disqualified for that Race provided however, that nothing herein shall apply in respect of the entry for a Race of a yearling bred by such person.

(4) (a) Any person who is affected by the provisions of paragraph (c) of sub-Rule (2) or by the provisions of sub-Rule (3) of this Rule may apply to NZTR for a permit to race a horse or horses notwithstanding such provisions and NZTR may, if satisfied that the circumstances so warrant, grant a permit accordingly.