✨ Amendments to Rules of Racing
18 JULY 2014
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 76
657 (1) If a Rider, or any other Licenceholder who has carried out, is carrying out, or is likely to carry out, a Safety Sensitive Activity at a Racecourse, Training Facility or Trainer’s Premises, has supplied a sample of his blood, breath, urine, saliva or sweat (or more than one thereof) in accordance with Rule 656(2), and such sample or samples is or are found upon analysis to contain any controlled drug as defined in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 or other illicit substance and/or its metabolites, artifacts or isomers, then:
(a) that such person shall be notified in writing of the finding of that analysis as soon as reasonably practicable; and
(b) that person’s Licence shall be automatically withdrawn from the date of the written notice until the Judicial Committee issues a substantive decision in relation to any information filed against that person in relation to that sample or samples.
(2) If:
(a) no information against that Rider, or any other Licenceholder who has carried out, is carrying out, or is likely to carry out, a Safety Sensitive Activity at a Racecourse, Training Facility or Trainer’s Premises, is filed within 21 days of the written notice referred to in Rule 657(1)(a) being served on that person; and
(b) that Rider, or such other Licenceholder, (as applicable) has subsequently provided a further sample of his blood, breath, urine, saliva or sweat (being the same type or sample as the first sample provided, e.g. urine) and such sample is found upon analysis not to contain a controlled drug as defined in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 or other illicit substance and/or its metabolites, artifacts or isomers,
then that person’s Licence shall may be reinstated.
(3) If, in the opinion of NZTR, the hearing of an information against a Rider, or any other Licenceholder who has carried out, is carrying out, or is likely to carry out, a Safety Sensitive Activity at a Racecourse, Training Facility or Trainer’s Premises, in relation to a sample or samples referred to in sub-Rule (1) above is not held in a timely way as a result of delays or omissions on the part of the informant, then NZTR may reinstate that person’s Licence on such terms and conditions as NZTR sees fit.
(4) The above provisions shall take effect notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the provisions of Rule 322.
GENERAL PENALTIES
803 (1) A person who, or body or other entity (not being a Club) which, commits or is deemed to have committed a breach of these Rules or any of them for which a penalty is not provided elsewhere in these Rules shall be liable to:
(a) be disqualified for a period not exceeding 12 months; and/or
(b) be suspended from holding or obtaining a Licence for a period not exceeding 12 months. If a Licence is renewed during a term of suspension, then the suspension shall continue to apply to the renewed Licence; and/or
(c) a fine not exceeding $20,000.
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