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Screen Regulations |
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Operation| Bidding Boxes| Modification of
penalties These regulations are for use with Screens and
include Bidding Box regulations
The North and East players sit on the same side of the screen
throughout. It is North's responsibility to place the board on, and to remove
the board from the bidding tray. It is West's responsibility to adjust the
screen aperture.
North places the board on the bidding tray. The aperture is closed
(and remains so during the whole of the auction period) so that the bidding
tray can just pass under it. The players remove the cards from the board.
A player may, by written question, ask for an explanation of an
opponent's call; the screen-mate then provides a written answer. 1.
At any
time during the auction a player may request of his screen-mate, in writing,
a full explanation of an opponent's call. The reply is also in writing. 2.
Questions
during the play period should be in writing with the aperture closed. The
screen is raised after the response has been made.
Bidding boxes are used.
A call placed and released may be changed: 1.
if it is
illegal or inadmissible (in which case the change is obligatory as soon as
either screen-mate is aware of this); or 2.
if it is
determined by the director to be a call inadvertently selected; or 3.
under the
provisions of Law 25 (the penalty provision of Law 25B does not apply if the
first call is not transmitted through the screen). A call placed and transferred to the other side of the screen
generally becomes subject to the normal provisions of the Laws.
A player who makes an alertable call must alert his screen-mate, and
partner must alert on the other side of the screen when the bidding tray
arrives there. It is the player's responsibility to ensure that his screen
mate is a aware of the alert. The recommended procedure is to place an Alert
card over the last call of the screen-mate, in his segment of the bidding
tray; the alerted player acknowledges by returning the Alert card to his
opponent. Standard EBU regulations shall apply with regard to which calls
require an alert.
During the auction period, after an opponent has acted quickly, it is
proper to adjust the tempo back to normal by either delaying one's own call
(place the bidding card faced, in front of, but not on the tray) or by
waiting before passing the tray.
After all four players have had the opportunity to review the auction
(equivalent to the right of having the auction restated) the players replace
their bidding cards in their respective bidding boxes.
Dummy may call attention to a defender's card prematurely exposed.
The artificial adjusted score and penalty prescribed in the first
paragraph apply only if the call has been transmitted to the other side of
the screen.
For the infractions covered by these laws, the following procedures
are used: 1.
Tray not Passed. Before the tray is passed, the offender's screen-mate shall call
attention to the infraction and summon the director. The director shall see
that the infraction is rectified without penalty. These infringing calls may
not be accepted. 2.
Both Sides at Fault. When the infringing call is nonetheless passed across the screen,
both sides being at fault (as when either player commits a bidding infraction
and the proper player - North or South - moves the tray before
rectification), both players on the other side of the screen are responsible
for calling attention to the infraction and summoning the director. The
director shall return the tray to the offending players for rectification of
the irregularity without penalty. These infringing calls may not be accepted. 3.
Only One Side at Fault. When a call is passed across the screen both players on the other
side of the screen are responsible for drawing attention to any infraction
and summoning the director. If only one side is found to be at fault, and
except as otherwise provided in these or any other Conditions, a call placed
and transferred to the other side of the screen is subject to the normal
provisions of the Laws. 4.
Irregularity not Noticed. When the infringing call is passed across the screen, and neither
player there draws attention to it, the tray eventually being returned to the
side of the screen where the bidding irregularity was committed, the auction
stands without penalty or rectification. However, in the case of an
inadmissible call, Law 35 applies. 5.
Information - Authorised or Not. Information from withdrawn calls is unauthorised for any partnerships
at fault but authorised for a player or partnership that has committed no
irregularity. If the director determines that the unauthorised information
from withdrawn calls precludes normal bidding, he shall award an artificial
adjusted score.
The subsequent call is cancelled without penalty.
The offender's screen-mate should attempt to prevent any opening lead
our of turn. A faced down lead out of turn is retracted without penalty. A
faced opening lead out of turn is retracted without penalty if the screen has
not been raised. 1.
and the
other side has not yet led face up, the lead is considered to be out of turn
and Law 54 applies; 2.
and the
other side has also led face up, the card becomes a major penalty card. When the declaring side has incorrectly opened the screen, the lead
is accepted. The director shall award an adjusted score if he considers that
the player who opened the screen could have known that it would be to his
advantage to accept the lead.
Spectators may not sit so they can see both sides of the screen. |
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