Public Submissions on draft Racing Regulation and Integrity Bill

​​​​​​​​​Background

The Racing Regulation Act 2004 has not been substantially reviewed since its inception. That is why the Government announced a review of the Act and the broader racing integrity model in Tasmania, led by independent expert Mr Dale Monteith, with the view to strengthening and enhancing integrity functions, as well as animal welfare.

On 8 June 2022, the Government released the Review of the Racing Regulation Act 2004: Securing the Integrity of the Tasmanian Racing Industry (the Monteith Review).​

The Government carefully considered each of the recommendations and confirmed support, or in principle support, for all the recommendations contained within the Monteith Review, including but not limited to: 

• ​Creating a Tasmanian Racing Integrity Commissioner with powers to set integrity and animal welfare standards and comprehensive audit, compliance and investigatory functions;
•  Enhancing integrity governance within Tasracing, with Tasracing to become operationally responsible for all three Codes of racing and pre-race day and race day management, including Stewards and animal daily animal welfare; and
• Providing a policy role for the RSPCA in animal welfare and retaining the power for independent investigation of animal welfare matters.

The draft Racing Regulation and Integrity Bill has been developed in response to the Monteith Review and Government response. The draft legislation, along with the draft Racing and Integrity (Consequential Amendments) Bill is now open for public consultation.  

An Explanatory Paper has been developed to describe the provisions in the draft Racing Regulation and Integrity Bill in simple language. 

​Important information to note

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​The Right to In​​formation Act 2009 and Confidentiality 

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In the absence of a clear indication that a submission is intended to be treated as confidential (or parts of the submission), the Department will treat the submission as public.

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