45^ J 0/1 null of Agriculture. [lo July, 1909. 



(6) Two-yeair-old colts ma\ be submitted for examination and a tem- 

 porary 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 CERTiFirArE. 



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

 ficates. 



(2) In 1909, only stallions four years old and over, will be given 

 life certificates. T hree-year-old stallions will Ije 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. 



(3) In 1910. and subsequently, only stallions five years old and over, 

 ■will be given life certificates. Tlircc-xcar-old and four-year-old stallions 

 will be certificated for the season onlv. and will be required to be submitted 

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

 will be issued. 



(4) The Season certificate issued in respect of anv horse must be handed 

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

 the Chief Veterinarv Officer 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 tJie system gradually, so that no hardship will be 

 imposed on oivners. I'nless i/i response to Ministerial request as above 

 provided for. ojcners or p'ur chasers of stallions certificated in igoy and 

 igo8 ivill not he required to submit them again. Persons 7vho have 

 undertaken stallion keeping since igoS hcn'c had ample tiotice and have 

 had the fullest opportunity of making themselves anvare of the conditions 

 of certification of stallions, namely — tlie annual cxami tuition of all horses 

 under five years old.) 



V. — Board of Appeal. 



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

 ■Government certificate in resj^ct of his horse may apf>eal against the 

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

 under the following conditions : — 



(a) That the ai)peal be in writing and be accom[)anied bv the lodg- 

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

 appeal not being upheld, unless the Roard shall for good 

 cause otherwise direct. 



{h) That tile appeal be accomj)anic(l b\ in 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 tiic cycnt of refusal having been on the ground of 

 unscuindness. the appeal 1h' accompanied bv a certificate 

 from a registered Vcteriiiar\ Surgeon .setting out that the 

 horse has been found b\ him on examination since the re- 

 fusal ay)i)ealed against, to be free from all the unsoundnesse.s^ 

 set out in Part IT. of these Regulations. 



