Rule 12 – True names of Owners, death of Owner

i)  Subject to sub-Rules (ii) to (iv) below, a Greyhound shall be registered by and run in the true name of its Owner who shall also be registered.

ii)  If an Owner has two or more names that he/she considers to be true names, and/or is called or known by two or more names, he/she shall notify the Greyhound Regulatory Board of all such names when first applying to register a Greyhound and shall elect one such name as the name in which, subject to the approval of the Greyhound Regulatory Board, all his/her Greyhounds shall be registered and run.

iii)  If an Owner of a registered Greyhound changes his/her name at any time, he/she shall notify the Greyhound Regulatory Board of that Change of Name within 90 Days of the change or (if earlier) at the time when he/she next applies to register a Greyhound. An Owner shall be taken to have changed his/her name if he/she has acquired and/or has come to be called or known by any name or names different from or additional to the name in which his/her Greyhounds are registered or the names notified to the Greyhound Regulatory Board in accordance with sub Rule (ii) above.

iv)  If, following the Change of Name, an Owner has two or more names that he/she considers to be true names, and/or is called or known by two or more names, he/she shall elect one such name as the name in which, subject to the approval of the Greyhound Regulatory Board, all his/her Greyhounds shall thereafter be registered and run. In the case of Greyhounds already registered, the register shall be amended to give effect to the provisions of this sub-Rule.

v)  Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing sub-Rules, a married woman shall always register and run Greyhounds in her married name unless the Greyhound Regulatory Board expressly authorise otherwise.

vi)  If the Owner of a registered Greyhound dies, Rule 88 and Rule 89 shall apply and notice of the Owner’s death shall be given to the Greyhound Regulatory Board by any Authorised Agent of the deceased, by any Part-Owner of a registered Greyhound of which the deceased was a Part-Owner, or by the personal representatives of the deceased. Such notice shall be given within 90 Days of the Owner’s death or (if earlier) before the running of any Greyhound registered in the name of the Owner at the time of his/her death.