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(6) Two-year-old colts may be submitted for examination and a tem- 

 p>orary certificate will be issued in respect of such as pass the examination. 

 Such temporary certificate must not be taken to imply suitability for stud 

 service of approval as regards type, nor is the issue of it intended as an 

 indication of the likelihood of a certificate being issued when submitted 

 for examination at a more mature age. 



IV. — Tenure of Certificate. 



(i) Certificates issued during the seasons 1907 and 1908 are life certi- 

 ficates. 



(2) Certificates issued during the season 1909 in respect of horses 

 four years old and over are life certificates ; those for three-year-olds are 

 season certificates only, and the horse must be submitted for re-examina- 

 tion at four and five years before a life certificate will be issued. 



(3) In 1 9 10, and subsequently, only stallions five years old and over 

 will be given life certificates. Three-year-old and four-year-old stallions 

 will be certificated for the season only, and will be required to be submitted 

 for r^-examination each season until five years old, when a Life certificate 

 will be issued. 



{4) The Season certificate issued in respect of any horse must be handed 

 to the Examining Officer at the time of re-examination or forwarded to 

 the Chief Veterinary OflScer before a subsequent Season certificate or a 

 Life certificate will be issued. 



(5) The Minister retains the right to at any time have a certificated 

 stallion submitted for re-examination, and to withdraw the certificate, in 

 the event of the animal being declared, to his satisfaction, unsound. 



{The arrangement as to tenure of certificates, set out above, -provides 

 for the introduction of the system gradually, so that no hardship will be 

 imposed on owners. Unless in response to Ministerial request as above 

 provided for, oivners or purchasers of stallions certificated in igoy and 

 igo8 will not be required to submit them again. Persons who have 

 undertaken stallion keeping since igo8 hcwe had ample notice and have 

 had the fullest opportunity of making themselves aware of the conditions 

 of certification of stallions, namely — the annual examination of all horses 

 under five yea>rs old.) 



V. — Board of Appeal. 



(i) Any owner of a stallion who is dissatisfied with the refusal of a 

 Government certificate in respect of his horse may appeal against the 

 decision to the Minister at any time within thirty days of the examination, 

 under the following conditions : — 



{a) That the appeal be in writing and be accompanied by the lodg- 

 ment of ;^5, such amount to be forfeited in the event of the 

 appeal not being upheld, unless the Board shall for good 

 cause otherwise direct. 



{b) That the appeal be accompanied by an undertaking to pay any 

 railway fares and hotel expenses incurred bv the Board of 

 Appeal in connexion with the settlement of the appeal. 



(c) That, in the event of refusal having been on the ground of 

 unsoundness, the appeal be accompanied by a certificate 

 from a registered Veterinary Surgeon setting out that the 

 horse has been found by him on examination since the re- 

 fusal appealed against, to be free from all the unsoundnesses 

 set out in Part II. of these Regulations. 



