To take effect from 1st
January 2005 for matches played in the northern and southern hemispheres
Delete: 1.1(c) Artificial grass
Rewrite: 1.1(b)
Type of surface. The surface should be grass but may
also be sand, clay, snow
or artificial grass. The game may be played on snow,
provided the snow and
underlying surface is safe to play on. It shall not be
a permanently hard surface
such as concrete
or asphalt. In the
case of artificial grass surfaces, they
must
conform to IRB Regulation 22.
Law 1
Add to 1.3(b) a third
paragraph
The 15-metre lines,
which link the 5-metre dash lines and are 15 metres from and parallel to the
touch-lines.
Delete 1.3(c) (ii)
Amend: 3.11(c) penalty provision to
read:
Penalty: Penalty Kick where play
would restart.
Delete: 3.11(d)
Delete: 3.12. and relocate in 3.4 as 2nd para.
Consequential amendments: Renumber 3.13 as 3.12 and 3.14 as 3.13
A team can substitute up to two front
row players and up to five other players. Substitutions may only be made when
the ball is dead and with the permission of the referee.
Delete: 4.6. 1st paragraph.
Add: 4.4 (k)
A player must not wear any additional item of clothing that does not
conform to IRB Regulation 12.
Delete: 5.4(a) 3rd paragraph.
A match may last more than
eighty minutes if the Match Organiser has authorised the playing of extra time
in a drawn match in a knockout competition.
Delete: 6.A.3(b).
Delete: 6.A.4.
Consequential amendments renumber 6.A.5 to 6.A.14 as
6.A.4 to 6.A.13
Delete: 6.A.5(b)
Consequential amendments renumber 6.A.5 (c) to 6.A.5(h) as 6.A.5 (b) to
6.A.5(g)
Add: to last sentence of Definition.
which is prejudicial to the Game.
Delete:
10.1(g)
Law 10
Rewrite: 10.2(a).
Intentionally
Offending. A player must not
intentionally infringe any Law of the Game, or play unfairly. The player who
intentionally offends must be either admonished, or cautioned that a send off
will result if the offence or a similar offence is committed, or sent-off.
After a caution a player is temporarily suspended from the match for a period
of ten minutes playing time. After a caution, if the player commits the same or
similar offence, the player must be sent-off.
Penalty: Penalty Kick
A penalty try
must be awarded if the offence prevents a try that would probably
otherwise have
been scored. A player who prevents a try being scored through foul play must
either be cautioned and temporarily suspended or sent off.
Law 10
Rewrite: Law
10.2(c) as amended in April 2004 as follows.
Throwing into
touch. A player must not intentionally
knock, place, push or throw the ball with his arm or hand into touch,
touch-in-goal, or over the dead ball line.
Law 10
Rewrite: 10.3(a) 2nd paragraph.
A player penalised for repeated infringements must be cautioned and
temporarily suspended. If that player then commits a further cautionable
offence, or the same offence, that player must be sent off.
Delete: 10.3(b)
Consequential amendments renumber
10.3(c) as 10.3(b) and 10.3(d) as 10.3(c)
Delete: 10.4(e), 5th and 6th paragraphs except for
last sentence of para 2, which should be moved to become para 6 after the last
penalty provision in 10.4 (e).
Delete: 10.4(k) 2nd
paragraph.
Amend: 10.4(l) Penalty, as follows.
The penalty is the same as for
sections 10.4 (a)-(k) except that the penalty kick is awarded at the place
where play would restart. If that place is on the touch-line or within 15
metres of it, the mark for the penalty kick is on the 15-metre line, in line
with that place.
If play would restart at a
5-metre scrum, the mark for the penalty kick is
at
the place of the scrum.
Delete: 11.8.
Consequential amendments renumber 11.9 as 11.8 and
10.10 as11.9
.
Delete: 12.1(f)
Delete: 13.18(a) 2nd sentence.
Add. ‘Penalty: Free Kick at the place of infringement.’
Delete: 15.4
Consequential
amendments renumber 15.5 to 15.9 renumbered 15.4 to 15.8.
Delete: 15.6(f) words ‘Penalty: Penalty Kick.’
Delete: 15.6(h).
Delete: 16.5(e)
Consequential amendment to heading of 16.5(c) to
‘Players joining or rejoining the ruck’
Rewrite: Definition
A maul occurs when a player carrying the ball is held by one or more
opponents, and one or more of the ball-carrier’s team-mates bind on the
ball-carrier. A maul therefore consists
of at least three players, all on their feet; the ball-carrier and one player
from each team. All the players involved must be caught in or bound to the maul
and must be on their feet and moving towards a goal-line. Open play has ended.
Delete: 20.5(b)
Delete: 22.4(f)
Consequential amendments renumber 22.4(g) to 22.4(j) as 22.4(f) to
22.4(i).
Amend: 22.16(b)
Foul play by the defending team. The referee awards a penalty try if a
try would probably have been scored but for foul play by the defending team. The
referee awards a penalty try if a try would probably have been scored in a
better position but for foul play by the defending team.
A penalty try is awarded between
the goal posts. The defending team may charge the conversion kick after a
penalty try.
A player
who prevents a try being scored through foul play must either be cautioned and
temporarily suspended or sent off.