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62 PART VI. RECOMMENDATIONS.

The Commission recommends that legislation be enacted to effect the following purposes:—

1. To provide that race meetings other than trotting meetings may not be held in any one year in the area included within the ambit of this Inquiry on more than one hundred and four days in all.

2. To provide that trotting meetings, comprised solely of trotting events, may be held in any one year within the said area on not more than six days, and to provide further that no such meeting may be conducted except by and for the benefit of The Brisbane Trotting Club.

3. To provide that not more than sixty-two Registered race meetings may be held in the said area in any one year, and that no such meeting may be held except on Saturdays, the days (being week days) on which the following public holidays—

New Year's Day, Foundation Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter Monday, Labour Day, King's Birthday, Exhibition Day, and Boxing Day

are celebrated, the Monday in Exhibition week and the second Wednesday in November, and to provide further that when, in the opinion of the stewards, racing is impracticable, owing to weather conditions, on one of the abovementioned days, a meeting appointed to be held on such day may be postponed to a day not later than the Friday in the following week.

3. To prohibit proprietary Registered racing.

4. To prohibit the holding of any Unregistered race meeting on any of the days mentioned in Recommendation No. 3.

5. To provide that not more than forty-two Unregistered race meetings (other than trotting meetings) may be held in any one year in the said area.

6. To provide that not more than thirty-four Unregistered race meetings (other than trotting meetings) may be held in any one year in the said area on racecourses other than Bundamba.

7. To provide that no Unregistered race meeting (other than a trotting meeting) may be held in any week in which any of the public holidays, other than Exhibition Day, mentioned in Recommendation No. 3, is celebrated or in the second week in November.

8. To provide that Unregistered race meetings (other than trotting meetings) may be held only on Wednesdays or Thursdays, except in cases where, in the opinion of the stewards, racing is impracticable, owing to weather conditions, on the day appointed for such a meeting, in which event such meeting may be postponed to a day, not being a Saturday or one of the days mentioned in Recommendation No. 3, not later than the Friday of the following week.