Greyhound Racing Act 2019

Disqualification orders

47. (1) Where the Control Committee imposes as an administrative racing sanction a disqualification order, the order disqualifies any greyhound specified in the order and any other greyhound kept, owned, trained or managed by the person specified in the order from one or more of the following as is specified in the order:

(a) registration in the Irish Greyhound Stud Book;

(b) entry to any greyhound race or trial at any greyhound race track;

(c) transfer of ownership;

(d) acceptance for sale at any public sale of greyhounds;

(e) use in breeding, including use of ova, semen or embryos of the greyhound.

(2) A disqualification order shall specify the terms and conditions in which the order may be revoked or varied by the Control Committee and, where appropriate, it shall specify the period of time for which the disqualification order applies.

(3) A disqualification order may be varied or revoked in whole or in part on appeal by the Appeal Committee upon application to it under section 49 .

(4) Section 45 of the Principal Act is repealed.

(5) A disqualification order in place under section 45 of the Principal Act on the commencement of this section—

(a) shall continue in being as though it was made under section 46 (1)(b)(i), and

(b) may be revoked by the Board.