Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations Northern Territory Consolidated RegulationsIn these Rules, unless the contrary intention appears:
"advertise" means to publish in a written, printed or oral form.
"appeal" means an appeal instigated under Part XXV.
"Appeal Committee" means the Appeal Committee as constituted under rule 256.
"approved" means approved by the Commission.
"attendant" means a person, other than the owner or trainer, who handles greyhounds at a meeting or a qualifying trial.
"Chief Steward" means the Chairman of Stewards appointed under rule 83(2).
"club" means a greyhound racing club or a body or group of persons holding or proposing to hold a meeting or qualifying trial in the Territory and registered to do so.
"Commission" has the same meaning as under the Racing and Betting Act .
"defaulter" means a person declared under rule 241(1) to be in default in payment of moneys to the Commission or a club.
"disqualified" means disqualified under these Rules, whether directly or by the adoption of a disqualification made by a club and:
(a) where a person is so disqualified – means the person shall not, during the disqualification period, transact a registration matter with the Commission or have a right or benefit conferred by registration under these Rules or be entitled to retain in his possession or control a certificate of registration in relation thereto; and
(b) where a greyhound is so disqualified – means the greyhound shall, during the disqualification period, be and remain unregistered and shall not, unless approved, be eligible to be transferred into new ownership.
"drug" means a chemical, medicine or substance which may affect or be capable of affecting the speed, stamina, courage or conduct of a greyhound and includes a vitamin administered other than orally.
"event" means a race or qualifying trial.
"grader" means a person appointed to that office under rule 105.
"grounds" means a dog racing ground licensed under the Act.
"judge" means a person appointed under rule 175 to officiate as a judge at a race or trial.
"kennel" means an area, enclosure, place or course used for the purpose of accommodating greyhounds competing at a meeting.
"lure" means a lure activated by artificial means.
"maiden" means:
(a) in relation to a flat race – a greyhound which, at the time of starting, has not won or been awarded first place in a flat race where greyhounds race behind a lure otherwise than by way of a walk-over; and
(b) in relation to a hurdle race – a greyhound which, at the time of starting, has not won or been awarded first place in a hurdle race where greyhounds race behind a lure otherwise than by way of a walk-over.
"meeting" means a meeting at which greyhound racing is to be carried on.
"official" means a person appointed by the Commission or a club to officiate as a secretary, steward, kennel attendant, identification officer, starter, judge, lure-driver, grader, veterinarian or timekeeper, or in some other capacity directly connected with greyhound racing.
"official draw" means the draw after the completion of the box draw given to the secretary of a club by the Commission.
"owner" includes:
(a) a part-owner, lessee or part-lessee of a greyhound;
(b) a person who exercises or purports to exercise a right of ownership over or to have an interest in a greyhound; or
(c) where the owner is not present at the relevant meeting, a trainer or other person who handles the owner's greyhound.
"prescribed fee" means, in relation to a matter specified in these Rules, the fee specified in Column 2 of the Schedule opposite the rule specified in Column 1 of the Schedule.
"private trial track" means a privately conducted training track used and maintained solely for the purpose of educating and training a greyhound owned or trained by the person declared in an application for registration as the owner, lessee or manager of the private trial track.
"public trial track" means a training track used by the general public for the purpose of educating and training greyhounds, for which service the registered owner or manager may ask a fee.
"qualifying trial" means a trial of greyhounds in competitive pursuit of a lure conducted in accordance with these Rules, by which one or more of the greyhounds may qualify to enter for a race at a meeting.
"race" means the competitive pursuit of a lure for prize or reward by 2 or more greyhounds at a meeting.
"registered" means registered by the Commission.
"registration authority" means a body responsible for the registration of persons for the purposes of greyhound racing in a State of the Commonwealth.
"reweigh" means the registered weight of a greyhound after a reweigh conducted in accordance with rule 157.
"secretary" includes a person designated as, or who performs executive duties as, a secretary or manager of a club.
"service", in relation to the impregnation of a bitch, includes service by natural methods and by means of artifical insemination.
"starter" means:
(a) in relation to a person – a person appointed under rule 160 to start a race or qualifying trial; and
(b) in relation to a greyhound – a greyhound which has been placed in a starting-box for the purposes of a race or qualifying trial and which has not been subsequently withdrawn prior to the start of the race or qualifying trial by order or permission of the stewards.
"steward" means a person appointed under rule 82 to control a meeting or qualifying trial or to adjudicate on a matter which may arise at or from a meeting or qualifying trial.
"suspended" means suspended under these Rules whether directly or by adoption of the Commission of a suspension imposed by a club and, in relation to a person so suspended, means the person shall not, during the continuance of the suspension have, exercise or enjoy a right, priviledge or benefit under or arising from these Rules.
"the Act" means the Racing and Betting Act .
"trainer" means, in relation to a greyhound, the person registered as the trainer of that greyhound.
"veterinarian" means a registered veterinarian within the meaning of the Veterinarians Act .
"warn off" means to prohibit from entering upon and remaining on a registered greyhound racecourse or registered greyhound trial track.
"warned off" means a notice of a decision by the Commission or by a club prohibiting a person named thereon from entering a course under its control.
"weight record card", in relation to a greyhound, means the card issued by the Commission to the owner of the greyhound for the purpose of recording the weight from time to time of that greyhound.