30 SEPTEMBER 2009 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 144 3411

(a) he is weighed out for that horse at the appointed place more than thirty minutes before the starting time of the Race, or such other time specified by NZTR on Race day; and

(b) he weighs out at the correct weight, including claiming the correct allowance in the event that he is an Apprentice Jockey, or is a Rider eligible to claim an allowance in a Jumping Race or Highweight Race in accordance with Rules 542(2) or (3), as applicable,

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 during that Race Meeting, is also responsible for the Apprentice Jockey complying with his obligations under paragraphs (a) and (b) above.

(2) Any horse which starts in a Race and is ridden by a Rider or an Apprentice Jockey, as applicable, with an incorrect weight or weight allowance, having regard to this Rule, may be, in addition to any other penalty which may be imposed, disqualified for the Race by the Judicial Committee.

619 A Rider shall not be weighed out for a ride in a Race:

(a) where he is carrying more than 3 kg dead weight about his body until any excess weight above 3 kg is removed from about his body; and/or

(b) with a skull cap, a colours cap, padded whip or any substitute for a whip, bridle, any item or items of Notifiable Gear, saddle number cloths or anything worn on a horse’s legs and the weight of such shall not be included in the weight of a Rider for the purposes of weighing-out or weighing-in,

and unless a Stipendiary Steward permits otherwise, that Rider (after being weighed out) must not remove or add any article of wearing apparel (including any dead weight about his body) or riding gear with which he did or did not weigh out as the case may be.

620 (1) A Rider shall be weighed wearing his body protector and shall be deemed to have been weighed out at the weight shown on the scale less 1 kg to take into account the weight of his body protector.

(2) Subject to sub-Rule (1) above, if a Rider, in being weighed out, exceeds by 0.5 kg or more the weight required by the conditions of the Race to be carried by his mount, the amount of such excess shall be deemed overweight and the amount of such overweight shall be declared by the Clerk of the Scales to a Stipendiary Steward and the Rider may then only proceed to ride in the Race with such overweight with the permission of a Stipendiary Steward.

(3) If a Stipendiary Steward or Investigator is satisfied that any Rider whose name has been declared to NZTR is unable to make the weight which the horse he was to ride was handicapped to carry (or such other weight at which he may have agreed to ride the horse) the Stipendiary Steward or Investigator may permit another Rider to be substituted for the declared Rider and in such case no riding fees shall be payable to the declared Rider and no penalty shall be imposed upon the Trainer on account of the change in Riders.

SAFETY, ACCIDENTS AND ILLNESS PRIOR TO START

621 A Rider who has been declared by a Registered Medical Practitioner or an Emergency Medical Officer at the relevant Race Meeting to be unfit to ride in a Race must not:

(a) weigh out or attempt to weigh out or be weighed out to ride in a Race; and

(b) notwithstanding paragraph (a) ride in a Race at a Race Meeting, or ride in any trackwork or trials (including a jump-out or test for certification purposes),

without first obtaining a medical certificate from a Registered Medical Practitioner as fit to ride and presenting such medical certificate to a Stipendiary Steward or Investigator.

622 A Rider who is examined by or consults a Registered Medical Practitioner because of injury suffered through an accident or because of having for any reason become unfit for work or riding or who becomes aware or ought reasonably to become aware of circumstances, whether resulting from accident, illness or otherwise, which may affect his fitness for work or riding shall be required to obtain from a Registered Medical Practitioner, and to produce to a Stipendiary Steward or Investigator, a medical certificate as to his fitness to ride before riding.