REGULATION 17 17.9.5 Citing Commissioners shall act independently of the Disciplinary Committee or Judicial Officer and of the Match Officials of a Match or other Citing Commissioners. 17.9.6 Citing Commissioners may be in attendance at the Match for which they are appointed. Where a Citing Commissioner is not present at the Match, there shall be a suitably qualified and experienced Citing Commissioner Liaison Officer in attendance at the Match who is able to provide the Citing Commissioner in accordance with the applicable timeframe with the relevant information and back-up required to assist the Citing Commissioner with his duties. 17.10 Union referral to Citing Commissioner 17.10.1 Where a Citing Commissioner has been appointed, the Union or other affiliated organisation responsible for the management of either participating team in a Match shall not have the power to cite a Player for Foul Play but may refer any incident of alleged Foul Play to the Citing Commissioner for consideration. Such incident shall ordinarily be referred to the Citing Commissioner within 12 hours of the Match in which the incident is alleged to have occurred. 17.10.2 A Citing Commissioner's decision as to whether a Player should be cited, whether as the result of an incident referred to him or otherwise, shall be final. 17.11 Matches where Citing Commissioners are not Appointed 17.11.1 For Matches where, in accordance with Regulation 17.8.3 or 17.8.6, it is not reasonably practicable for a Citing Commissioner to be appointed, the following shall apply: (a) Each team participating in a Match, or any of its authorised officials, or its Union, may cite: (i) a Player(s) for an act(s) of alleged Foul Play committed during that Match provided that such act(s) have not been detected by the Match Officials; (ii) a Player for more than one incident of alleged Foul Play in the same Match; and (iii) more than one Player in any Match. (b) Unions and Tournament Organisers shall put in place procedures for team citing which accord with the following: (i) citings by teams or their Unions shall be in writing and sent by an authorised member of the Union or management of the team to the nominated officer of the Host Union or Tournament Organiser responsible for the Match in which the incident that is the subject of the citing complaint occurred. Last update: 14 January, 2015 244
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