(1) A person must not
organise, promote or participate in, or participate in organising or
promoting, jumps racing.
Maximum penalty: $20 000 or imprisonment for 2 years.
(2) However, nothing
in subsection (1) prevents a person from—
(a)
organising, promoting or participating in, or participating in organising or
promoting, equestrian eventing, show jumping or a cross-country event; or
(b)
jumping a horse, or requiring a person to jump a horse, over an obstacle other
than in the course of a horse race; or
Example—
Training or preparation of a horse that includes jumping an obstacle.
(c)
publishing the field of horses competing in jumps racing held in another State
or Territory, or overseas; or
(d)
advertising jumps racing held in another State or Territory, or allowing
images or audio of such racing to be shown or heard.
(3) In this
section—
"jumps racing" means a steeplechase or hurdle race involving the racing of
horses.