New South Wales Consolidated Acts

THOROUGHBRED RACING ACT 1996 - SECT 23

23 Integrity Assurance Committee

(1) Racing NSW must establish a committee to be known as the Integrity Assurance Committee (“the IA Committee”). The IA Committee is to have primary oversight of those aspects of the functions of Racing NSW that relate to race stewards, drug testing and control, licensing, handicapping and horse racing appeals. The IA Committee has such other functions as Racing NSW may confer on it or as are conferred on it by this Act.

(2) The IA Committee is to advise Racing NSW on the matters for which it has primary oversight.

(3) Racing NSW is to determine the qualifications and disqualifications for membership of the IA Committee and in doing so is to have particular regard to the need to minimise conflicts of interest, such as might arise from a person’s:

(a) ownership of horses currently in work, or

(b) professional involvement in race preparation, or

(c) professional or commercial dealings with any person who holds a licence issued by Racing NSW or by a racing association.