REGULATION 21 21.2.4 (Whereabouts Failures) if the Player is elevated to the Registered Testing Pool. (d) It shall not be a defence to an allegation of a Missed Test under Regulation 21.2.4 (Whereabouts Failures) that the Player had delegated responsibility for filing his whereabouts information for the relevant period to a third party and that third party had failed to file the correct information or failed to update previously filed information to ensure that the whereabouts information in the Whereabouts Filing for the day in question was current and accurate. 21.5.6.17 Consequences of Whereabouts Failures (a) Registered Testing Pool: Any Player in a Registered Testing Pool who commits a total of three Whereabouts Failures (which may be any combination of Filing Failures and/or Missed Tests adding up to three in total) within a 12-month period, (irrespective of which Anti- Doping Organisation(s) has/have declared the Whereabouts Failures in question) shall be considered to have committed an antidoping rule violation pursuant to Regulation 21.2.4. (b) Testing Pool: Any Player in a Testing Pool who commits a total of three Whereabouts Failures (which may be a combination of a Filing Failure(s) and/or Missed Test(s)) within an 12-month period shall be automatically transferred from the Testing Pool to the Registered Testing Pool. Upon the occurrence of such an event any Missed Test(s) or Filing Failure(s) incurred in the Testing Pool will not be carried forward into the Registered Testing Pool. Once the Player enters the Registered Testing Pool he will be subject to the supplemental whereabouts provisions of Regulation 21.5.6.10. The 12-month period referred to in (a) and (b) above starts to run on the date that the Player commits the first Whereabouts Failure being relied upon by World Rugby for the purpose of elevating the Player to the Registered Testing Pool or alleging an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to Regulation 21.2.4. It is not affected by any successful Sample collection conducted with respect to that Player during the 12-month period, i.e. if three Whereabouts Failures occur during the 12-month period then an anti-doping rule violation is committed in accordance with Regulation 21.2.4 (Whereabouts Failures) irrespective of any Samples successfully collected from a Player during that 12-month period. However, if a Player who has committed one Whereabouts Failure does not go on to commit a further two Whereabouts failures within 12 months of the first, at the end of that 12-month period the first Whereabouts Failure “expires” for the purpose of Regulation 21.5.6.17. For the purposes of determining whether a Whereabouts Failure has occurred within the 12-month period referred to in Regulation 21.5.6.17: (a) A Filing Failure shall be deemed to have occurred on the first day of the quarter for which the Player fails to make the required filing, or in the case of any subsequent Filing Failure in the same quarter following notice of the previous Filing Failure where the Player failed Last update: 14 January, 2015 338
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