Changes/Additions

The following changes are to ensure and promote safety and good conduct. (The term him / his or he terms the person)

Code - Tackles above armpit

When a ball carrier is advancing in an upright posture any tackle by the defender in which contact is made above the armpits is termed to be an infringement.

Code - Tripping or throwing. 

It is an infringement if the tackler trips or uses his legs in any way during a tackle. This applies even if the defender already has a hand on the ball carrier (ie the Cumberland throw).

Code - Lifting 1

Adopting a crotch hold is not permitted placing either the hand or arm in the crotch region at any time is an infringement.

Code - Lifting 2

Vertical lifting is an infringement should a referee anticipate this is going to happen he should blow the whistle immediately to prevent it from occurring.

Code - Lifting 3

The ball carrier cannot be lifted and driven!

A tackle in which the ball carrier is lifted and remains off the ground for 2 or more steps is an infringement. HOWEVER this should not be confused with a driving tackle when the ball carrier is knocked off his feet.

Code Shoulder charge

Defenders are not allowed to shoulder charge the ball carrier in order to effect a tackle.

A defender who runs at the ball carrier and makes no attempt to tackle, grab or hold the ball carrier, but merely makes an attempt to affect the tackle by the use of the shoulder shall be deemed to have committed an infringement.

Code Flopping

A defender cannot drop or fall on to a prone player. If the ball carrier is prone or stationary on the ground it is an infringement to drop dive or fall on that player. The tackle will be deemed complete if the defender simply places a hand on the ball carrier.

Code slinging- The use of the ball carriers arm or jersey to sling a player to the ground is not permitted. Any defender who uses the arm or jersey of the ball carrier to complete a tackle is committing an infringement.

Code Hand or fend off

Dangerous use of hand. An attacking player cannot thrust out his arm and contact a defender above shoulder height. Any player that hands off or fends off above the shoulder will be deemed to have infringed.

Code Scrums

Forming, pushing, rotating, No pushing or rotating of the modified scrum is permitted. All scrums are passive, any team attempting to push or rotate the scrum shall be deemed to have infringed. Referees should instruct teams at the scrum to crouch, engage, and hold.

Code Unacceptable language

The use of obscene threatening racist denigrating and abusive language is not permitted. Any form of verbal abuse threatening language or sledging will be deemed an infringement.