30 SEPTEMBER 2009 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 144 3409

and other areas specified by the Stipendiary Stewards, until he has completed his riding engagements, when he shall seek the permission of a Stipendiary Steward to leave.

607 A Rider whose Licence is suspended may not enter the jockeys’ room or weighing room otherwise than in accordance with the proviso to Rule 1106(1).

IDENTIFICATION, RACING GEAR AND RIDING GEAR

608 A horse must be able to be identified by a Stipendiary Steward or Investigator in a manner permitted in accordance with Rule 407(a). If the horse is unable to be identified by a Stipendiary Steward or Investigator in such manner as being the horse it is represented as being, the Stipendiary Steward or Investigator may withdraw that horse from any Race, trial (including a jump-out or test for certification purposes) it was purportedly entered to start or carry out.

609 NZTR may determine and publish an approved gear list of:

(a) the type and nature of gear which is required to be used, and which it is permissible to use, as racing gear for horses and riding gear for Riders; and

(b) Notifiable Gear, which is to be used in accordance with Rule 616,

and a horse or Rider using racing or riding gear, as applicable, must only use gear in accordance with the requirements of these Rules except where:

(c) a Stipendiary Steward grants a Rider who is temporarily visiting New Zealand permission to use gear which may not comply with the requirements of the approved gear list, provided that the Stipendiary Steward is satisfied that such Rider’s gear is approved for use in the country in which the Rider normally resides; or

(d) NZTR, in its sole discretion, permits from time to time the use of racing or riding gear which is not in accordance with the requirements of these Rules and the approved gear list, in which event a horse or Rider may use such alternative riding or racing gear as expressly permitted by NZTR and in accordance with any conditions NZTR may impose.

610 (1) NZTR shall, from time to time, publish all types of body protectors as have been approved by it.

(2) A Rider shall, when mounted on a horse, wear:

(a) a properly fastened body protector of a type and standard approved by NZTR, which shall be in a satisfactory condition and shall have attached to it a manufacturer’s label that states that it complies with the relevant type and standard approved by NZTR; and

(b) a skull cap of a type and standard approved by NZTR.

The sole responsibility for wearing a body protector and skull cap in accordance with these Rules and for ensuring that the body protector and skull cap is in a satisfactory condition is that of the Rider, provided that where the Rider is an Apprentice Jockey such Apprentice Jockey’s employer, or a representative of their employer who is in charge of the Apprentice Jockey at any relevant time, is also responsible for the Apprentice Jockey wearing a body protector and skull cap in accordance with these Rules and for ensuring such body protector is in a satisfactory condition.

(3) A Stipendiary Steward may confiscate or order the satisfactory repair of any body protector or skull cap that does not comply with the requirements of sub-Rule (2).

(4) A Rider may not wear or have in their possession a body protector or a skull cap that has been modified in any way.

611 A Rider must not wear spurs in a Flat Race or flat trial (including a flat jump-out or flat test for certification purposes).

612 A person must use sound and suitable gear on a horse.

613 A person must not start or attempt to start a horse in a Race or trial (including a jump-out, or test for certification purposes) with a horse:

(a) in bandages, unless those bandages are securely fastened to the satisfaction of a Stipendiary Steward;

(b) with its ears plugged in any manner;