JUDICIARY

Referees and Assistant Referees need to provide reports regarding incidents of serious foul play and injuries within 48 Hours.

Law

Description

3.7

Player re-joins a match without Permission

4.7

Wearing an illegal item of clothing

9.7 (a)

Intentionally infringe any laws of the game

9.7 (b)

Intentionally knock, place, push or throw the ball dead

9.7 (c)

Do anything to promote opposition infringement

9.7 (d)

Waste Time

9.8

A team must not repeatedly infringe (Red Card Mouth Guard)

9.9

A player must not repeatedly infringe the laws

9.10

When different players of the same team commit the same offence

9.11

Players must not do anything that is reckless of dangerous to others

9.12

A player must not physically or verbally abuse anyone

9.13

Early, late or Dangerous Tackle

9.14

Tackling a non-ball carrying player

9.15

Obstruction/Hold Player

9.16

Intentional charge or knock down of player

9.17

Tackling a player’s whose feet is off the ground

9.18

Tackling an opponent beyond 180-degree angle

9.19

Dangerous play in a scrum

9.20

Dangerous play in a ruck or maul

9.21

A player must not retaliate

9.22

Flying Wedge

9.23

Kick Ball from hands of ball-carrier

9.24

Excessive Force in fending

9.25

Intentionally charge or obstruct player who just kicked the ball

9.26

Against the spirit of good sportsmanship

9.27

A player must not physically, verbally, or incidentally abuse a Match Official

JUDICIARY NOTES

Here are some hints to assist member’s preparation in the event of an ARRA referee having an “incident” at a match that requires attendance to the ARFU judiciary meeting at Alexandra Park L3 on Tuesday evenings.

Very few Red Cards now result in an invite to attend a Judicial meeting. A Red Card carries an automatic 2 week suspension for the player unless either the perpetrator feels 2 weeks is not justified (and they appeal) or Judiciary feel 2 weeks is not sufficient (and they call a hearing). In either case you will receive an email invite to the arranged judicial hearing.

We certainly hope none of our officials need to get involved with this but in the event that you do, please consider the following information:

Judiciary Notes

Judiciary Notes 2012 – Updated by Roger Drew

You may also find the following documents useful as a guide to preparing and writing the required reports for judiciary.

Referee Ordering Off Report Example

Referee Sin Binning Report Example​​​​​​​