HANDBOOK

CONTENTS

  1. Forward
  2. School Contacts
  3. Entry Requirements
  4. Player Eligibility To Play
  5. Ground and Hosting Requirements
  6. Dispensations
  7. Team and Player Numbers
  8. Game On
  9. Change of Fixture
  10. Defaults
  11. Team Sheets
  12. Serious Injury Reporting
  13. Competition Points, Competition Tables, Determining winners in playoffs and finals.
  14. Discilpinary Process
  15. Competition Rules Breach Process
  16. Miscellaneous Competition Rules

       16.1      REFEREE MATCH REPORTS

       16.2      REFEREE INSPECTION

       16.3      ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE

       16.4      MATCH BALLS

       16.5      CLASH OF JERSEY COLOUR

       16.6      BLUE CARD CONCUSSION

       16.7      NIGHT GAMES

       16.8      LIGHTNING SAFETY

       16.9      ABSENCE OF REFEREE

       16.10    HAKA PROTOCOL


1. FORWARD

The Bay of Plenty Rugby Secondary Schools Handbook has been re-introduced at the request of the stakeholders to make it simple for those with an interest in Secondary Schools Rugby to locate the relevant information that applies to them. 

It follows the same format and content order as the Bay of Plenty Rugby Union Competition Rules and standardises the way in which all of the competitions within the Bay of Plenty rugby region are administered.  It also creates a one stop shop for all of those involved with either participating or administering those competitions.

World Rugby provides the laws by which the game is played. 

New Zealand Rugby provides the national framework for which the game is played, including the provision of the domestic safety law variations to the law book, the policies that guide the age for which participants can play age grade rugby, the dispensations policy and the disciplinary process.

Bay of Plenty Rugby provides the framework on how the law book and domestic safety law variations are implemented as well as the mechanisms for matters such as participant eligibility, registration, dispensations, venue and event management, match day protocols, disciplinary, appeals, competitions rules.

The various competition committees design the competition formats, dispensation criteria, points tables, semi-finals and finals determination.