Rule 1102(2)(b)

RULES OF RACING
II   PART XI - JUDICIAL COMMITTEE
FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF JUDICIAL COMMITTEE
1101 (1)   No member of the Judicial Committee shall sit as a member thereof in the determination of any matter, information or proceeding in which he is in any manner interested.
(2) Any member of the Judicial Committee may be replaced by the Chairman (or in his absence by a member) of the Judicial Control Authority pursuant to Section 99ZI of the Racing Act 1971.
(3)   The Judicial Committee may, subject to the provisions of these Rules, determine its procedure as it thinks fit.
(4)   In any case where the appointed Chairman of the Judicial Committee is unable or unwilling to act in relation to a particular matter the Judicial Committee shall appoint another of its members to act as Chairman in relation to that matter.
(5)   Subject to the preceding sub-Rules of this Rule all appointed members of a Judicial Committee shall, if practicable, determine any matter, information or proceeding submitted for the determination of that Committee but one member shall constitute a quorum.
1102 (1)   The Judicial Committee shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine all proceedings commenced pursuant to these Rules, which are not expressly stated by any of these Rules to be within the jurisdiction of any other person or body.
(2) The functions of a Judicial Committee shall be:
(a)   from one hour prior to the advertised starting time of the first race of any day of a race meeting until after the conclusion of the last proceeding which it commences to deal with on that day, or thirty minutes after the last race run on that day (whichever is the later) to:
(i)    hear all matters of a judicial nature which arise during and in relation to that day of racing and are submitted to it;
(ii)   determine any question as to whether that day of racing or any part thereof should be postponed, abandoned or cancelled;
(iii)   declare a race null and void and if it thinks expedient order that such race be run again;
(iv) exercise the powers, duties and functions conferred or imposed on Judicial Committees by these Rules.
(b)   to consider and determine the following matters in connection with racing:
(i)    all informations and proceedings in relation thereto;
(ii)   any matter in connection with the riding or running of a horse which has become the subject of a proceeding;
(iii)   all questions of application or interpretation of these Rules which arise in the course of the hearing and determination of a proceeding;
(iv)   all questions of qualification of persons or horses which so arise;
(v)   all questions of liability of persons in respect of payments under these Rules which so arise;
(vi) all matters submitted to it by a Stipendiary Steward or Racecourse Inspector;
(vii) any dispute concerning the exercise or proposed exercise by the Stewards, a Stipendiary Steward or Racecourse Inspector of any of their or his powers, duties or functions under these Rules;
(viii) all matters submitted to it for judicial determination or for a ruling under these Rules;
(ix) whether it should order that the Judge, Starter, Clerk of the Course or any other Official be removed during and for the duration of the meeting or any day thereof and that any person should be appointed in his stead;
(x)   whether to declare the entry of any horse to be invalid, the money paid for such entry to be forfeited to the
Club and sweepstake (if any) to be forfeited to the race in which the horse is entered;
xi)   all other matters which these Rules require or permit to be and are submitted to it.
(c)   to exercise the powers of the Stewards under Rule 707(2) if it thinks fit to do so and for such purpose it may delegate to any one or more of its members the authority to exercise those powers which is hereby conferred on it;
(d)   subject to the powers of the Stipendiary Steward to determine whether any horse should be scratched for any race and to order that any horse be so scratched;
(e)   in any circumstances in which it deems such action necessary or desirable, to order the removal of any rider or the substitution of another;

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