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White Book – November 2003 – Chapter III III PREPARATION AND PROGRESSION Law 7 Control of Board and Cards 7.1 Counting cards The Laws put the primary responsibility for making sure thirteen cards are passed from one table to the next on the recipient, who is required to count his cards, and is considered at fault if he looks at them when there is the wrong number. Accordingly, passing on a number of cards other than thirteen is not penalised automatically (see #90.4.3). However, passing on the wrong thirteen cards is penalised since the recipient cannot tell the hand is wrong until he looks at it, and in the absence of curtain cards not even then. 19
White Book – November 2003 – Chapter IV IV GENERAL LAWS GOVERNING IRREGULARITIES Law 9 Procedure following an irregularity 9.1 Late rulings The TD should be summoned as soon as an irregularity may possibly seem to have occurred. If a player is aware of an irregularity at the time but does not ask for a ruling immediately, Law 92B superficially allows that he may do so at a later time, but he is obviously in breach of the intention of Law 9B1A. He will not normally receive redress when requesting a ruling at a later time if attention had been drawn in any way to the irregularity at the time of the irregularity or afterwards. The TD should be very wary of making an exception which can have a major beneficial effect on the final result of the claimant and should only do so where the Laws state specifically that he should do so. The TD should usually only deal with an irregularity where both sides are present and should not usually make a ruling without giving the other side (normally all four players) an opportunity to give an account of the question raised. Example of exception When doing the scoring the TD notices an error. Normally he will check with both sides before correcting it. But if that is impossible [perhaps because one or both pairs have gone home] he may still make an adjustment where he feels completely confident he knows what the score should have been. If it is scored as 3NT making ten tricks, +460, then he will not alter it without speaking to both sides, since he cannot be sure which is right. But if it were scored as +430, but was vulnerable, he would alter it to +630 since +430 cannot be right. Subject to the above, provided a contestant applies to the TD before expiry of the Correction period [see #92.1] he may not be denied a ruling or the opportunity to appeal a ruling. However, if because of his late application it is no longer possible to ascertain facts [for example, a board has been redealt with no copy made of the hands] then no ruling can be given. Where a player asks for a ruling after the round has ended, and except where the Laws make explicit provision for this, the TD should enquire as to the reason for the late request and should be satisfied that attention was not drawn to the irregularity at the time or that there is fresh information obtained subsequently which justifies the tardy involvement of the TD. Otherwise there is a breach of Law 9B1A. TDs are not expected to do more than the Law essentially requires for a player who knew full well at the time that there was an irregularity and considered it could be advantageous not to draw it to the TD's attention in the spirit of Law 9. In some cases a request for a ruling will be made late because some new fact has come to light. In the absence of such circumstances the burden of proof, especially where facts are disputed, may shift against the side requesting the ruling. A corollary of this is that TDs should always record the reasons given for requesting a late ruling. 20
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