191 1.] Regulations for Premium Stallions. 1023 



4. (a) Nomination tickets for free service by a specified stallion 

 will on application be issued by the Secretary of a County Committee 

 for a limited number of mares in the district. 



(b) Nomination tickets for the service of mares at a fee by a 

 specified stallion will be issued by members of the District Committee 

 concerned on application by the owner of the mare provided that 

 payment of the prescribed service fee is made at the time of issue, or 

 an undertaking given to pay the same. Receipts for payments of 

 service fees are to be obtained and shown to the stallion owner on 

 the occasion of the first service. 



Persons issuing nomination tickets (free or otherwise) are to inform 

 the owner of the stallion of the names of the persons to whom they 

 have issued them. The tickets are to be handed to the stallion owner 

 on the occasion of the first service, and he is to give a receipt for 

 them and for any service fees paid direct to him. 



(c) Mares can also be accepted for service without nomination if the 

 stallion owner so agrees and arranges for the collection of the pre- 

 scribed fees. 



5. The owner of a stallion may refuse service if the payment for 

 the same has not been made prior to or on the occasion of the first 

 service. 



Before service takes place the stallion owner or his representative 

 should satisfy himself that no erasure or alteration appears on a free 

 service ticket, inasmuch as the Board may in such circumstances with- 

 hold payment of the service fee unless the alteration or erasure is 

 initialed by the Secretary of the County Committee. In the event of 

 any difficulty arising in this connection the owner of the stallion should 

 communicate with the Secretary of the County Committee. 



6. A service ticket is not transferable, and is available only for the 

 mare for which it is issued and for the stallion mentioned thereon. 



7. The owner of a stallion or his representative may require hobbles 

 to be used for any mare served. 



8. The trial of a mare is equivalent to a service, and the owner 

 is liable for the payment of the fee. 



9. A receipt from the stallion owner for the payment of the service 

 fee or for a nomination ticket will, on production to the stallion owner 

 who issued it, entitle the mare in respect of which it is issued to a 

 second and third service, if necessary, should she come in use again 

 on two future occasions during the service season. 



10. In accordance with the conditions prescribed by the Board for 

 the award of Premiums, a Premium stallion is to serve at the pre- 

 scribed fees : — 



(a) not less than 50 mares, if so required ; and in addition 



(b) any mare which has been purchased and leased to a farmer 

 or other person by a County Committee; and 



(c) without fee, any other mare on production of a free service 

 ticket, for which payment will be made by the Board. 



Service fees will not, however, be paid by the Board in respect of 

 more than 90 mares served by the same stallion in a season. 



11. The owner of a stallion or his representative may refuse to 

 allow his stallion to serve a mare suffering from a contagious disease, 

 but he must immediately notify the reason for the refusal to the person 



