NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 45 — 30 APRIL 2015

them. The Rules are currently silent on authority for any organisation, including the Stewards, to require a rider (who is not riding in a race) to present a medical certificate of fitness relating to riding on a racetrack or training track.

208 Stipendiary Stewards and Investigators have the power:

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(g) to require a Rider to undergo a medical examination by a Registered Medical Practitioner or an Emergency Medical Officer or similarly experienced qualified person if they consider on reasonable grounds that the Rider may be unfit to ride in a Race a Horse at a Racecourse, Training Facility or Trainer’s Premises he is proposing to ride in on that day because of injury, illness or other disability; and

2. Rule 301 - Licences (Trainers’ Licences)

NZTR recommends amendments to Rule 301 to include reference also to a licence applicant’s financial position in Rule 301(3)(e) as follows. Again, the Rules are currently silent on this.

301(3) A Licence shall not be issued to any person:

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(e) who NZTR considers to be unsuitable to hold a Licence for reasons of integrity, competence or otherwise (including, without limitation, reasons relating to the applicant’s financial circumstances).

3. Rule 417 and Form SR24 – Notification of Death or Retirement of a Thoroughbred

NZTR recommends amendments to Rule 417 to provide for mandatory notification by the owner or Racing Manager to NZTR when their horse has been retired from racing and is not entering the Thoroughbred breeding population, from which time the retired horse will automatically cease to be registered and is ineligible to race unless it is re-registered, as follows:

NOTIFICATION ON HORSE’S DEATH OR RETIREMENT OR DEATH OF HORSE

417 (1) On the retirement of any registered horse from racing and/or breeding, the Owner or Racing Manager of the Horse (as the case may be) at the time of retirement shall, within one month of the date on which the horse was retired, notify NZTR of the retirement by completing the prescribed form and forwarding it to NZTR.

(2) On receipt of a notice of retirement of a horse under Rule 417(1), NZTR shall de-register the horse from racing and/or breeding (as the case may be) and update the appropriate register(s). Rule 411(3) shall apply to a horse that has been de-registered under this Rule.

(4) (3) On the death of any registered horse, the Owner or Racing Manager of the Horse (as the case may be) at the time of death shall, within one month of the date on which the horse died, notify NZTR in writing to that effect of the death of the horse by completing the prescribed form and forwarding it to NZTR.

NZTR will make consequential amendments to NZTR Form SR24 which notifies NZTR why the horse has been retired and plans for the horse post-racing (for example equestrian or live stock sale). This form is not required to be completed for horses retiring from racing and immediately entering the Thoroughbred breeding population.

4. Rule 423 – Change of Owner(s) or Lessee(s)

NZTR recommends amendments to Rule 423 to avoid the need for all owners/lessees to sign NZTR Forms SR16 and SR20 each time ownership/lease arrangements change (to be replaced by the person transferring an interest, the person acquiring an interest and the Racing Manager) and the addition of a new Rule 423(9) to clarify that when a horse is sold subject to the terms of a registered lease, the lease remains in place and the new owner(s) is bound by its terms unless the new owner(s) and the lessee(s) notify NZTR otherwise.

CHANGE OF OWNER(S) OR LESSEE(S)

(423) (1) Notice of any change in the legal or beneficial Ownership of a horse or in the lessees of a horse (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any change in the percentage interest held by any Owner or lessee of the horse) must be given to NZTR within seven days after any such change takes place, and before the horse is started in any Race, provided that where any such change takes place:

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(2) The notice of a change in the Ownership of a horse or in the lessees of a horse must be submitted by the new Owner(s), new lessee(s) or new Racing Manager (as the case may be) on the prescribed form to NZTR, with such further information as NZTR may require in its absolute discretion, and must:

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(c) be signed by each person:

(i) referred to in Rules 423(b)(i) and (ii) above;

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