31-7
Disqualification Penalties
a. Breach by one Partner
A side shall be disqualified from the competition
for a breach of any of the following by either
partner:
* Rule 1-3 - Agreement to Waive Rules.
* Rule 3-4 - Refusal to Comply with Rule.
* Rule 4-1 or -2 - Clubs.
* Rule 5-1 or -2 - The Ball.
* Rule 6-2b - Handicap (playing off higher handicap;failure to record
handicap).
* Rule 6-4 - Caddie.
* Rule 6-6b - Signing and returning Card.
* Rule 6-6d - Wrong score for hole, i.e. when the recorded score
of the partner whose score
is to count is higher then actually taken, it must stand as returned.
* Rule 6-7 - Undue Delay; Slow Play (repeated offence).
* Rule 7-1 - Practice efore r Between Ronds.
* Rule 14-3 - Artificail Devices and Unusual Equipment.
* Rule 31-4 - Gross Scores to Count Not Individually Identifiable.
b. Breach by Both Partners
A side shall be disqualified:
(i) for a breach by both partners
of Rule 6-3 (Tie of Starting and Groups) or Rule 6-8
(Discontinuance of Play), or
(ii) if, at the same hole, each partner
is in breach of a Rule the penalty
for which is
disqualification for the competition or for a hole.
c. For the Holr Only
In all other cases where a breach of a Rule
would entail disqualification, the competitor
shall
be disqualified only for the hole at which the breach occurred.
31-8 Effect of ther Penalties
If a competitor's breach of a Ruile
assists his partner's play,
the partner incurs the applicble penalty in
addition to any penalty incurres by the competitor.
In all other case where a competitor incurs a peanlty for breach
of a Rule, the penalty shall nor apply to his partner.
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