3. Powers and duties
The provision as it is printed, and everything on Ruleside that turns on it.
· allows play to continue when an offence occurs, or a restart is incorrectly taken and the ball is in play, and the opposing team will benefit from the advantage, and penalises the offence/orders a retake if the anticipated advantage does not ensue at that time or within a few seconds
Verdicts that turn on it 31
Walk a practice scenario to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- Penalty kick + red card: violent conductfoul-sanction
- Direct free kick + red card: violent conductfoul-sanction
- Penalty kick + red card: serious foul playfoul-sanction
- Direct free kick + red card: serious foul playfoul-sanction
- Penalty kick + yellow card: reckless challengefoul-sanction
- Direct free kick + yellow card: reckless challengefoul-sanction
- Penalty kick, no card: careless foulfoul-sanction
- Direct free kick, no card: careless foulfoul-sanction
- No red card: the force was negligiblefoul-sanction
- Penalty kick + yellow card: showing a lack of respect for the gamefoul-sanction
- Direct free kick + yellow card: showing a lack of respect for the gamefoul-sanction
- The kick has not been taken as Law 13 requiresfree-kick
- Play continues on the advantagefree-kick
- The corner kick is retaken, and the caution is the part that is not optionalgoal-kick-corner
- Indirect free kick: playing in a dangerous manneroff-the-ball
- An indirect or direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-the-ball
- A direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-the-ball
- Indirect free kickoff-the-ball
- On the nearest boundary line, and a penalty if that is inside their own areaoff-the-ball
- Indirect free kick on the nearest boundary lineoff-the-ball
- Direct free kick where the object struck, or would haveoff-the-ball
- Direct free kick, if it interferedoff-the-ball
- Direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-the-ball
- Indirect free kickoff-the-ball
- Direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-the-ball
- Holding: a direct free kick, or a penalty kick in the offender's own areaoff-the-ball
- Play on, and go back if the advantage does not comereferee
- Throw-in to the opposing team: the stancethrow-in
- Throw-in to the opposing team: the feetthrow-in
- Throw-in to the opposing team: the hands or the actionthrow-in
- Throw-in to the opposing team: the wrong placethrow-in
Explained in the rules library 3
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Changed for 2026/27 1
What this provision replaced, and when it took effect.
Questions that ask it 2
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