Greyhound Racing Act 2019

Traceability of greyhounds - traceability database

28. (1) The Board may, after consultation with the Minister, make regulations for the registration and traceability of greyhounds in relation to the following:

(a) making provision for the registration in the traceability database of owners of greyhounds or holders of licences granted for the purposes of paragraph (b) or both prior to engaging in greyhound racing activities, including trialling, breeding, training, selling or racing;

(b) licensing of classes of owners;

(c) requiring owners of greyhounds to register greyhounds intended for greyhound racing activities in the traceability database;

(d) making provisions for the conditions for registration and the information required to be kept in the traceability database;

(e) requiring the owners, breeders or the trainers of such greyhounds to notify specified life events to the Board;

(f) specifying the life events which are to be notified in accordance with the regulations (which events may include birth, sale, acquisition, death, loss, treatment for disease or injury, training, race entries, stud or breeding events, the collection of semen or embryos, periodic status reports, track injuries, tests and results, including adverse analytical findings in relation to substances regulations, appearance at sales, export, offences under the Greyhound Racing Acts 1958 to 2019 or racing sanctions);

(g) requiring the owner, breeder or trainer of a greyhound to provide the Board with details of the keeper of and location where a greyhound is being kept;

(h) requirements in respect of the electronic identification of greyhounds (including the implantation into, or the attachment to, a greyhound of any electronic device).

(2) The Board may establish and maintain by it, or by another person on its behalf, a database for the registration and traceability of greyhounds (in this section referred to as the “traceability database”) to hold details of matters provided for in regulations made under subsection (1).

(3) A person who contravenes a regulation made under subsection (1), and which is stated in the regulations to be a racing sanction provision, commits a sanction breach of the Racing code and is liable to a racing sanction.