3432 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 144 30 SEPTEMBER 2009

filing fee the amount of which shall be set from time to time by NZTR, provided that the Judicial Committee may accept in lieu of such fee a written undertaking by the informant to pay such fee within seven days.

(b) An information which seeks or may result in any change to the Judge’s placings specified in the Judge’s Report on account of interference with the chances of another horse or horses placed by the Judge or any ground referred to in Rule 907(2) shall not be filed later than the time at which the last Rider weighs in unless the Official Result of Placings has not been declared and an extension of time in which to file an information is granted by a Stipendiary Steward.

(c) After the time specified in paragraph (b) hereof an information shall not be filed against any person, or any horse which started in a Race, except by a Stipendiary Steward or Investigator.

(d) Otherwise than during a Race Meeting an information may be filed only by a Stipendiary Steward or Investigator, after receiving the written permission of the Chief Executive to do so.

(e) Nothing in paragraph (b) of this sub-Rule shall prevent a Stipendiary Steward or Investigator filing an information at any time later than the time specified in Rule 907(2) and seeking the disqualification of a horse from a Race or Races but such information, or proceeding resulting from the filing of such information, shall not have any effect on the Official Result of Placings declared.

(3) An information may contain one or more alleged breach of these Rules against one or more persons or horses.

(4) Subject to sub-Rule (2)(b) hereof, an information shall be filed within three years after the facts alleged in the information were brought to the knowledge of a Stipendiary Steward or Investigator.

(5) Nothing in these Rules shall prevent:

(a) a Stipendiary Steward or Investigator at any time after a Race filing an information that a horse should be disqualified on account of or in connection with a Prohibited Substance having been administered to it, or its having been ineligible to be entered for or started in a Race or on any other ground on which, under these Rules, a horse can be disqualified for a Race after starting in a Race; or

(b) a Judicial Committee from disqualifying such horse if the information is proved and making such resultant orders as it considers required, and as are permitted by these Rules (including orders disqualifying the horse and ordering that any money, prize or trophy already handed over be refunded), but such disqualification or order, if ordered or made after the Official Result of Placings has been declared, shall not in any way affect that Official Result of Placings.

904 (1) An information in respect of a Race may be filed on any of the following grounds:

(a) that the Race was run over the wrong distance; and/or

(b) that the Race was started before the appointed time.

(2) The Judicial Committee on determining the proceeding may declare the Race to be void and may direct that it be run again.

(3) Any decision of the Judicial Committee pursuant to this Rule is final.

905 (1) An information or any breach of these Rules alleged in an information may, by leave of the Judicial Committee, be withdrawn by the informant before determination of the information by the Judicial Committee, or, where the defendant has admitted the charge, before penalty has been imposed.

(2) The withdrawal of an information, or the dismissal of an information for want of prosecution, shall not operate as a bar to any other proceedings in the same matter and any subsequent information concerning such proceedings shall not be barred by Rule 903(4) provided that the original information complied with Rule 903(4).

906 If an information relating to the eligibility of a horse entered for a Race is filed on the day on which the Race is to be run, the Judicial Committee may require proof that such horse is qualified for the Race to be furnished before its Rider is weighed out and may, if such proof is