Racing Integrity Act 2016

The commission has the following functions—

to license animals and participants that are suitable to be licensed for a code of racing;

to assess under this Act the suitability of an applicant to be an approved control body;

to conduct audits of licence holders to decide if the licence holders continue to be suitable to be licensed, on the commission’s own initiative or at the request of the Minister;

to investigate complaints about matters relevant to a code of racing, on the commission’s own initiative or at the request of the Minister, including—

complaints about the processes of a control body; and

complaints about a licence holder;

to conduct investigations into breaches of this Act or the Racing Act;

to oversee the integrity of race meetings, including matters preliminary to race meetings;Examples of matters preliminary to race meetings——jumpouts, trackwork sessions, trials

to manage testing of things, including developing or adopting procedures about the way things for analysis are to be taken and dealt with;

to keep records that provide for the identification and monitoring of animals; Example—records that show the ‘end-to-end tracking’ of an animal

to safeguard the welfare of any animal involved, whether directly or indirectly and whether lawfully or unlawfully, in racing;

to safeguard the welfare of any animal that—

used to be involved in racing in Queensland or another jurisdiction; and

is in the possession of a person licensed under the thoroughbred or harness codes of racing;

to make decisions about disciplinary matters;

to prevent noncompliance and lapses in integrity, as far as practicable, in the racing industry;

to promote compliance and integrity, and to promote animal welfare and prevent animal cruelty, by educating, providing information for, and working with, participants;

to regularly review and assess compliance and the integrity of participants and practices in the racing industry, on the commission’s own initiative or at the request of the Minister;

to work collaboratively with entities responsible for investigating and prosecuting offences, including—

sharing information with the entities for crime prevention; and

in circumstances where the commission reasonably suspects an offence may have been committed;

to identify opportunities for cooperative partnerships with entities to improve compliance and integrity in the racing industry;

to report and make recommendations to the Minister about matters relevant to the performance of its functions and any other matters referred to it by the Minister;

to make all necessary inquiries it believes necessary to fulfil a function mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (p);

to perform a function incidental to a function mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (p);

to perform a function given to it under another Act.

In this section—compliance includes compliance with this Act or the Racing Act.processes, of a control body, includes policies, systems, actions and decisions made by the control body.