NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 144
30 SEPTEMBER 2009

place of hearing, if advice that there is to be a hearing and of the horse or horses involved is given over the public address system at the Racecourse.

SERVICE OF INFORMATIONS

911 (1) An information or other document which is required to be served on a person pursuant to these Rules may be served on him in any of the following ways:

(a) by being delivered to him personally or being brought to his notice if he refuses to accept it;

(b) being left for him at his place of residence with a person appearing to reside there and appearing to be of or over the age of 14 years;

(c) by being sent to him by letter addressed to him at his last known or usual place of residence or at his place of business;

(d) by being sent to him by facsimile at his known facsimile number or the facsimile number at his place of business;

(e) by being sent to him by email at his known email address;

(f) by being served on his training partner by any of the above methods, if he is part of a Training Partnership; or

(g) by compliance with Rule 910(2).

(2) Where service is effected in accordance with Rule 911(1)(c) above, then, unless the contrary is proved, service shall be deemed to have been effected on the person:

(a) in the case of personal delivery to the person or a person of the type set out in Rule 911(1)(b) or (d), when received by that person;

(b) in the case of posting by mail, on the second working day following the date of posting to the addressee’s last known address in New Zealand;

(c) in the case of facsimile transmission, when sent to the addressee’s facsimile number; and

(d) in the case of email, when acknowledged by the addressee by return email or otherwise in writing.

912 (1) All informations filed during any day of a Race Meeting shall be determined by the Judicial Committee appointed to officiate on that day by the Judicial Control Authority, except where the hearing of the information is adjourned, in which case the hearing and the determination shall be by either that Judicial Committee or such other Judicial Committee as is appointed by the Judicial Control Authority.

(2) All informations filed other than during a day of racing shall be determined by a Judicial Committee appointed by the Judicial Control Authority.

APPEARANCE

913 (1) If, at the hearing of an information, the defendant does not appear and the Judicial Committee is satisfied the information has been served and the defendant is aware of the date of hearing, then the hearing may proceed in the absence of the defendant and evidence of a fact or opinion which could have been given orally may be given by way of affidavit.

(2) Where on the hearing of an information only the defendant appears or neither the informant nor the defendant appear, the Judicial Committee may dismiss the information for want of prosecution or subject to Rule 915(2) adjourn the hearing to such time and place and on such conditions as it thinks fit.

PROCEDURE AT HEARING

914 A defendant who does not appear at the hearing of the information may admit the breach of these Rules alleged in that information by giving written notice to the Judicial Committee that he does so and in such event the Judicial Committee shall have the same power to deal with him as if he had appeared before it and admitted that breach.

915 (1) Where at the hearing of an information both the informant and the defendant appear, the following provisions shall apply:

(a) the Judicial Committee shall conduct the hearing as it thinks fit;