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RUGBY
of play, e.g., where without any infringement play cannot be
carried on after a player has been tackled or after a rush has been
stopped by a player falling on the ball. In many such cases the
Referee will find that the defending team is responsible for the
stoppage of play and that the attacking team should put in the ball.
A team must put in the ball when ordered to do so.
LAW 15 (B)
(7)
The Referee has no authority to permit delay in putting in the
ball because a player has not succeeded in getting his head down
in the scrummage.
The Referee should award a penalty kick is he is satisfied that
the delay by one team in putting in the ball is deliberate and preju-
dices the other team.
LAW
15
(B) (8) (b)
The " nearer first player " means the loose head front row forward
on the side on which the ball is being put in.
" Beyond " means that the ball must travel at least the width of
the first player's shoulders before it touches the ground.
LAW
15
(B)
(9)
The Referee must enforce strictly the laws against premature
advancing and raising of feet in the front row, particularly where
such infringements prevent the ball from entering the scrummage.
LAW
1
5
(B) (9)
and (i i)
The Referee should ensure that all players in the front row keep
their feet sufficiently far back. Both second feet and the nearer
third foot must be placed sufficiently far back to allow the tunnel
to be left clear. The nearer fourth foot or the further third foot
may be placed up to but not on the middle line, but neither foot
may be placed nearer the mouth of the tunnel until the ball has
left the hands of the player putting it in.
See also the note to Law
15
(B) Preamble.
LAW
15
(B) (io)
When the ball has come out of the scrummage in any of the ways
indicated by the arrows in the following diagrams, or if it passes
between the feet of the outside players of either front row on the side
on which it has been put in (no matter what subsequently happens
to it), it must be put in again.
The Referee must
not
order the ball to be put in again unless
it has come out as indicated in the diagrams.
When the Referee orders the ball to be put in again it
must
be
put in by a player of the same team that was first entitled so to do.
The referee has no power to apply Law
15
B
(6)
in such circum-
stances.
It is illegal (Law 36)
for any front row player intentionally
to kick the ball out of the Scrummage
and the Referee should
inflict penalties for this offence.
LAW
115
(B) (ii)
(a)
The first foot of either front row may follow the ball into the