3. Powers and duties
The provision as it is printed, and everything on Ruleside that turns on it.
Disciplinary action
Verdicts that turn on it 5
Walk a practice scenario to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- Punish the more serious offence, on four measuresreferee
- From the pre-match inspection to leaving the field, and cards from the start of the matchreferee
- Enforce, control, time, record, restart, disciplinereferee
- The referee acts on what the others saw, and it stays the referee's decisionreferee
- The senior team coach present in the technical area takes the sanctionteam-officials
Explained in the rules library 1
The plain-language pages that build on this provision.
Questions that ask it 2
Points in a walk where the reader is deciding this provision.
Answered differently by competition 1
This clause hands the answer to whoever runs the competition, so it has more than one.
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