Players
- Registration of Players:
(a) No club shall play any player in any competition
match unless at the time of the commencement of that match
he is a Registered Player of that Club.
(b) Any Club violating this rule shall in respect of
that team and that round in which such person
participates, be disqualified, and the opposing team shall
be allotted the highest number of points gained by any
team in that Grade in that Round, or the number of points
they would have gained but for the disqualification,
whichever is the greater.
(c) The team which is disqualified shall not be
allotted any points.
- Manner of Registration:
(a) Prior to any player taking part in any match,
affiliated Clubs shall submit to the President, Honorary
Secretary, Honorary Assistant Secretary or to a General
Meeting of the Association, a completed registration form
for that player using the prescribed registration form.
(b) Where time does not permit the form to be submitted
as set out in Rule 36 (a), an interim
registration may be carried out by the player completing
the prescribed registration form prior to taking part in
the match. Such interim registration must be confirmed by
submitting the completed registration form to the General
Meeting immediately following completion of the Round.
(c) In the event of registration forms not being
submitted as prescribed herein, a fine of two dollars per
form may be imposed by the Executive. The penalties set
out in Rule 35 (b) may imposed by the
Executive in respect of specified registration forms still
outstanding at a date set by the Executive.
(d) The Executive Council may require the Secretary of
the Club or any other player to furnish such additional
information as the Council may require.
- Transfer of Players Before 31st
January: Players may transfer from one club to another
prior to 31st January in any season provided:-
(a) Such player obtains a financial clearance from the
club he proposes to leave; or
(b) Should such player be a member of a club disbanding
which is under financial obligation to the Association, he
may by payment of a sum equal to one man's share of that
debt, be permitted to transfer.
- Transfer of Players After 31st
January: Players may transfer from one club to another
after the 31st January in any season provided they
comply with the provisions of Rule 37
(a) or 37 (b) and in addition
obtain the approval of the Executive Council, which
shall not be deemed to have been given until notice of
same is communicated to the player concerned.
- Clearance to Player: No club
affiliated with this Association shall refuse a player
a clearance provided that the player is free of any
financial obligations to that club.
- Transfer from Another
Association: Players transferring from another
Association must produce to the Honorary Secretary a
clearance from the Association before taking part in
any match in any competition conducted by this
Association.
- Transfer of Player from Team to
Team:
(a) Where a competition Round is played on both
Saturdays and Sundays, no player may play for one team on
Saturday and another on Sunday.
(b) Other than in the Finals Series in any season,
Clubs with two or more teams may select their registered
players in either or any team PROVIDED THAT the Executive
Council have not graded a player, or players, in
accordance with Rule 4.
(c) During the Finals Series, registered players may be
promoted to a team in a higher grade. However where a
registered player has during the final three Rounds in the
season participated in a match in a team in a higher grade
and has at any time during the season participated in
three or more matches in a team in a higher grade he shall
not be placed in a team in a lower grade during the Finals
Series and where a registered player has during the final
three Rounds in the season participated in a match in one
team and has at any time during the season participated in
three or more matches in that team he shall not be
transferred to another team in the same grade during the
Finals Series UNLESS the prior consent of the Executive
Council has been obtained and such consent has been
notified to the Secretary (or other prescribed official)
of the Club concerned. (Removed note
re D grade players)
- Defaulter: Any person who is a
defaulter in any club or Association conducting or
playing the game of cricket shall not participate in
any match in any competition conducted by the
Association. For the purposes of this Rule a defaulter
is any person who is in default for any sum of money
for financial dues, i.e. Entrance Fees, subscriptions,
playing fees, levies, fines, umpires fees due to the
Association club or team or moneys obtained from the
sale of tickets, goods or articles issued to a player
by the Association club or team.
