New Zealand Legislation: Acts

37 Judicial Control Authority

• (1) The Judicial Control Authority established under the Racing Act 1971 is continued.

  (2) The functions of the Authority are as follows:

  • (a) to initiate, develop, and recommend to the Board and the recognised industry organisations those measures that will, in its opinion, be conducive to the efficient judicial control of racing in New Zealand:

  • (b) to select and appoint, by any procedures and inquiries that it thinks fit, panels of suitable persons established under clauses 15 and 18 of Schedule 3 from which members of a judicial committee or members of an appeals tribunal may be appointed:

  • (c) to appoint the members of judicial committees under section 39:

  • (d) to appoint the members of appeals tribunals under section 40:

  • (e) to recommend to a racing code to which this section applies any changes to the racing rules of the code that it considers desirable in relation to matters of a judicial nature:

  • (f) to exercise and perform other functions, powers, and duties that are conferred or imposed on the Authority by or under this Act or any other enactment or by any racing rules.

  (3) The Authority has and may exercise all the powers that may be reasonably necessary for the purposes of subsection (2).

  Compare: 1971 No 155 ss 99U, 99V, 99ZB, 99ZF