NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 144

30 SEPTEMBER 2009

PART VI

RACE DAY AND TRIALS

CONTROL OF RACE MEETING ON RACE DAY

601 A Race Meeting shall be deemed to commence at 7:30 am on the day on which the first Race of the Race Meeting is advertised to be run and to conclude at midnight on the last day (or only day, if there is only one) of the Race Meeting.

602 (1) From 7:30 am on Race day, the Stipendiary Stewards shall have the control of the Race Meeting and be charged with the duty of ensuring that the provisions of these Rules are applied and enforced in respect of that Race Meeting.

(2) A Club must follow any directives, policies, guidelines or practices of NZTR (including the National Racing Bureau) necessary for the administration and control of a Race Meeting or related to Races or racing, including any decision by NZTR to cancel a Race day, or a Race Meeting, which may be made prior to or after 7:30 am on a Race day of that Race Meeting.

603 A person shall not:

(a) impede the conduct of a Race Meeting; or

(b) behave improperly towards, or impede, a Stipendiary Steward, Investigator, Official, Employee or member of the Committee of a Club, NZTR or NZRB in the course of their duties.

604 (1) The following persons (in addition to those who may be excluded and removed under any other of these Rules, or under Rules made pursuant to section 34 of the Racing Act 2003) and horses shall be excluded from a Racecourse at any time when a Race Meeting is in progress:

(a) all persons and horses whose names appear for the time being in any list of disqualifications kept by NZTR, or Another Racing Authority;

(b) all persons whose names appear for the time being in the Arrears List kept by NZTR, or Another Racing Authority; and

(c) all persons whose presence a Stipendiary Steward or an Investigator may deem undesirable;

(2) All persons warned off a Racecourse by a Club or NZTR, or off a racecourse or racing facility by Another Racing Authority shall be excluded from every Racecourse when any matter connected with racing is in progress.

(3) Notwithstanding that a person liable to be excluded or removed under this Rule, or under any other authority, may have paid to enter the Racecourse, or any enclosure therein, he shall not, by reason of such payment, be deemed to have acquired an irrevocable licence to go into or remain in such Racecourse or enclosure, and a Stipendiary Steward or an Investigator, or any officer or Agent thereof, may remove such person from such Racecourse or enclosure.

RIDERS PRESENT

605 (1) A Rider who has a riding engagement at a Race Meeting must present himself in the jockeys’ room at least 40 minutes before the starting time for the first Race in which he has a riding engagement.

(2) On or prior to presenting himself at the jockeys’ room in accordance with sub-Rule (1) above, an Apprentice Jockey must notify a Stipendiary Steward whether it is such Apprentice Jockey’s employer, or a representative of his employer, who is representing that Apprentice Jockey for such Race Meeting, and the person so notified to such Stipendiary Steward must be present at the Racecourse from the time the Stipendiary Steward is notified in accordance with this sub-Rule (2) until the last Race in which such Apprentice Jockey is engaged or any inquiry involving that Apprentice Jockey to be held in respect of that Race is so held on that Race Day (whichever is the later).

606 Unless otherwise permitted by a Stipendiary Steward, once a Rider has presented himself in the jockey’s room in accordance with Rule 605(1) that Rider must remain in the jockeys’ room.