New South Wales Consolidated Acts

THOROUGHBRED RACING ACT 1996 - SECT 14AA

14AA Registration and licensing functions of Racing NSW-general

(1) Racing NSW is to exercise its registration and licensing functions so as to ensure that any individuals registered or licensed by Racing NSW are persons who, in the opinion of Racing NSW, are fit and proper persons to be so registered or licensed (having regard in particular to the need to protect the public interest as it relates to the horse racing industry).

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), a person is not to be so registered or licensed if the person has a conviction and Racing NSW is of the opinion that the circumstances of the offence concerned are such as to render the person unfit to be so registered or licensed.

(3) This section does not limit any provisions of the Rules of Racing relating to the exercise of the registration and licensing functions of Racing NSW.

(4) In this section:
"conviction" has the meaning given by the Criminal Records Act 1991 but does not include a conviction that is spent under that Act.
"registration and licensing functions" means the functions referred to in section 14 (2) (b).