UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT
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8.1 It shall be deemed unsportsmanlike conduct if a person during the running of or in connection with an event abuses or harasses a judge or official or any other person present in any capacity at the event.
8.2 Any handler who displays unsportsmanlike conduct or who is seen to kick, strike, or otherwise roughly manhandle a dog while on the grounds of a hunt test at any time during the holding of the event, may be expelled from the test by the Hunt Test Committee.
8.3 The judges shall also have the authority to expel a handler from a test if they observe unsportsmanlike conduct on the part of the handler of see the handler kicking, striking or otherwise roughly manhandling a dog while the event is in progress. It will be the duty of the judge to report promptly to the Working Certificate Test Committee the expulsion of a handler.
8.4 The Working Certificate Test Committee shall investigate, at once, any instance of alleged unsportsmanlike conduct on the part of the handler, or any report that a handler has been observed kicking, striking or otherwise roughly manhandling a dog. If the Working Certificate Test Committee, after investigation, determines that a handler is in violation of this section, and that the incident, if proven, would constitute conduct prejudicial to the sport or the CKC, it shall exercise its authority in accordance with the Complaints section of these rules
8.5 The test secretary shall submit to the CKC a complete report of any hearing action taken under this section within 21 days.
8.6 Whenever a handler is expelled from a test or from participation at a working certificate test under this section, the dog that he is handling may continue participating with another handler.
8.7 Judges shall have the power to expel from the test any dog which does not obey its handler and any handler who interferes willfully with another handler or his dog. No dog shall be given a pass in a working certificate test unless the dog has completed all tests in that working certificate test, except a test which has been discontinued.
8.8 Judges shall have the power to disqualify any dog which does not appear within 15 minutes of the time designated for its turn to be tested, and to exclude any dog which the judges may consider unfit to participate. The entry fees of all such dogs shall be forfeited.
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