NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 144

30 SEPTEMBER 2009

PART VIII

SERIOUS RACING OFFENCES, BREACHES AND GENERAL PROVISIONS

SERIOUS RACING OFFENCES

801 (1) A person commits a Serious Racing Offence within the meaning of these Rules who:

(a) corruptly gives or offers, directly or indirectly, any money, present, share in a bet, or other benefit, to a person having official duties in relation to a Race, or to an Owner or lessee (as the case may be), Trainer, Rider, or other person having charge of or access to a horse;

(b) having official duties in relation to a Race, or being the Owner or lessee (as the case may be), Trainer, Rider or other person having charge of or access to a horse, corruptly accepts or offers to accept any money, present, share in a bet or other benefit;

(c) wilfully enters for or starts in, or causes or procures to be entered for or started in, a Race a horse which he or she knows or believes or has reason to believe to be disqualified or not to be qualified to be entered for or to start in such Race, or wilfully enters a horse for a Race unless entitled under these Rules or the conditions of the Race to do so;

(d) fraudulently enters a horse for a Race or disguises or alters the appearance of a horse with intent to conceal its identity or to hold it out to be another horse or is in any way interested in or knowingly connected with any such entry or disguise or alteration;

(e) makes or accepts a wager illegal in the country in which the same is made; or

(f) refuses to supply any information, or to make a written declaration (statutory or otherwise), or statement respecting any matter connected with racing or a horse registered with NZTR or the ownership thereof which a Tribunal or NZTR (including a Stipendiary Steward or Investigator) require him to supply or make;

(g) hinders or obstructs a Tribunal or NZTR from carrying out or determining an inquiry, investigation, information or proceeding in connection with racing or otherwise under these Rules;

(h) wilfully supplies false or misleading information, or makes a false or misleading declaration or statement, respecting any matter connected with racing or otherwise in connection with these Rules to a Tribunal, NZTR, or Committee of a Club, a Stipendiary Steward, an Investigator or any other body or tribunal or is knowingly a party to the giving of, false or misleading information or particulars; or

(i) knowingly employs or keeps in his employment a person whose name for the time being appears in the List of Disqualifications, provided that a disqualified person shall not be debarred from obtaining employment unconnected with the training or racing of horses;

(j) wilfully fails to register a financial arrangement, interest, sale, lease or other dealing by these Rules required to be registered;

(k) wilfully fails to perform an act ordered by a Tribunal, NZTR, Stipendiary Steward or Investigator to be performed by him;

(l) rides in a Race knowing or believing or having reason to believe that he is not qualified and eligible under these Rules to do so;

(m) commits a dishonest or fraudulent act connected with racing or betting associated with racing;

(n) administers, causes or permits to be administered or who attempts to administer or to cause to be administered or who permits a person to administer or cause to be administered for the purpose of affecting the speed, stamina, courage or conduct of a horse in a Race, a Prohibited Substance;