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REGULATION 4 EXPLANATORY NOTE EXPLANATORY NOTE. REGULATIONS GOVERNING PLAYER STATUS AND PLAYER MOVEMENT Introduction World Rugby is committed to attracting new Players to the Game and raising playing standards at all levels and in all member Unions. It is of fundamental importance to the future growth and development of the Game that all Member Unions, Rugby Bodies and Clubs are enabled and encouraged to attract new generations of Players to the Game within their own jurisdiction. In order to promote this development, encourage both mature and emerging Unions to identify, train and develop Rugby Players, World Rugby has agreed Regulations governing international Player movement. Regulation 4 is intended to: (a) Encourage Unions, Rugby Bodies and Clubs at all levels to identify and develop young Players; (b) Broaden the Game's playing base in all Unions; (c) Ensure appropriate compensation in the event of players developed within one Union moving to play in another Union; (d) Promote stability and facilitate the monitoring of international Player movement; (e) Create an effective mechanism to redistribute resources throughout the Game; (f) Identify the principles which Unions are encouraged to follow when introducing and/or developing their domestic intra-Union player movement, training and development compensation schemes. Ambit of this Explanatory Note Regulation 4 incorporates a compensation scheme that provides in certain circumstances for the payment of compensation to reflect the investment in the training and development of Rugby Players. International This Explanatory Note (and the forms appended to it) have been prepared for use by Unions (and their members) to explain the mechanics of Regulation 4, in particular the compensation scheme, and to assist in the introduction and the ongoing implementation of Regulation 4. Domestic Regulation 4 relates, principally, to the movement of Players between Unions; however, for that to be fully effective an appropriate domestic set of rules is also required. Thus Regulation 4.3 requires: Last update: 14 January, 2015 91


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