30 SEPTEMBER 2009 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 144 3425

(o) at any time uses or permits or causes to be used or who attempts to use or to cause to be used on or in relation to a horse any:

(i) electrical, mechanical or galvanic device; and/or

(ii) equipment, appliance or apparatus, other than as approved, from time to time, by NZTR,

for the purpose of affecting either at the time of such use or attempted use or subsequently the speed, stamina, courage or conduct of such horse;

(p) inflicts undue suffering on a horse by any means;

(q) knowing that any person comprising or having a legal or beneficial interest in a Legal Ownership Entity (including a shareholder or director or a person with any other ownership rights in that Legal Ownership Entity, if applicable) is a prohibited person, enters a horse for or starts it in a Race in the name(s) or on behalf of such Legal Ownership Entity in which such prohibited person has an interest;

(r) (unless he is a Registered Medical Practitioner or Emergency Medical Officer correcting an error) wilfully obliterates or removes or alters or tampers or interferes with any entry, note or writing made by that Registered Medical Practitioner or Emergency Medical Officer, as applicable, in any medical record form or other document issued by NZTR;

(s) either by himself or in conjunction with any other person:

(i) does or permits or suffers to be done any act which a Judicial Committee deems fraudulent, corrupt or detrimental to the interests of racing; or

(ii) at any time writes or causes to be written, publishes or causes to be published, or utters or causes to be uttered, any insulting or abusive words with reference to a Tribunal, NZTR, Committee of a Club or a member or Official of any such body or a Stipendiary Steward or Investigator, or Registered Medical Practitioner;

(t) commits a breach of any Rule which is or may be deemed to be a Serious Racing Offence by these Rules;

(u) does or omits any act for the purpose of aiding a person to commit a Serious Racing Offence;

(v) abets a person in the commission of a Serious Racing Offence;

(w) counsels, procures or incites a person to commit a Serious Racing Offence;

(x) conceals the commission of a Serious Racing Offence;

(y) attempts to commit a Serious Racing Offence;

(z) being a Licensed Person or Owner or lessee (as the case may be), his Agent or Racing Manager aids or assists or associates with a prohibited person or disqualified person for the purposes of the sale, purchase, care, breeding, training or racing of a horse registered under these Rules;

(aa) either by himself or in conjunction with others or as a member of a society, union or association, publishes, communicates or sends to or causes to be published, communicated or sent to the Tribunal or to a member or officer thereof any statement, comment, or expression of opinion upon any question which is to be judicially decided by such Tribunal with intent corruptly to influence or affect the decision thereof;

(ab) after being summonsed to attend to give evidence before a Tribunal or to produce to a Tribunal any paper, document, record or thing, without sufficient cause:

(i) fails to attend in accordance with the summons;

(ii) refuses to be sworn or to give evidence or, having been sworn, refuses to answer any questions that the person is required by the Tribunal or a member of it to answer concerning the proceeding; or

(iii) fails to produce any such paper, document, record or thing;