Racing Integrity Regulation 2016

This regulation may be cited as the Racing Integrity Regulation 2016.

This regulation commences on 1 July 2016.

For section 53(2) of the Act, an operational plan must include a program to audit the suitability of licensed animals and participants to continue to be licensed for the relevant financial year.

Note—

See also section 41(3) of the Act.

A program mentioned in subsection (1) must include the following—

the categories of licensed animals and participants being audited by the program;

the focus of the audits for each category of licensed animal or participant;

the number of audits planned for each category of licensed animal or participant.

Subsection (4) applies if, as a result of auditing licensed animals or participants, the commission identifies an issue about the suitability of licensed animals or participants to continue to be licensed that is not within the focus of the audits.

The program for the next financial year must include a summary of the issue and state whether the issue is addressed by the program.

For section 53A(5) of the Act, definition relevant agency, paragraph (d), each person stated in schedule 1AA is a relevant agency.

For section 101(1)(b)(ii) of the Act, each law of another State that is stated in schedule 1 is a law about racing or betting.

For section 140(2) of the Act, the Tattersall’s Club Rooms at 215 Queen Street, Brisbane is an approved place.

For section 145(1)(b) of the Act, the commissioner may appoint a race day steward as an authorised officer.

For section 210B(1)(d) of the Act, the owner of the livestock slaughter facility must keep a record of the colour and sex of each horse that arrives at the facility.

For section 210C(1)(a)(ii) of the Act, the following information is prescribed for a report about a horse that arrives at a livestock slaughter facility—

the information given to the owner about the supply of the horse under section 210A of the Act;

the colour and sex of the horse;

the day the horse arrived at the facility.

For section 79(2)(a) of the Act, the application fee for a racing bookmaker’s licence is—

if the applicant is an individual—2,609 fee units; or

if the applicant is a corporation—7,505 fee units.

This section applies for working out the amount of a fee expressed in section 7 as a number of fee units.

For the purpose of the Acts Interpretation Act 1954, section 48C(3), the amount is to be rounded downwards to the nearest dollar.

Example—

If the number of dollars obtained by multiplying a number of fee units mentioned in section 7 by the value of a fee unit were $2,648.75, the amount of the application fee, after rounding, would be $2,648.