1) The officials shall be One Referee, Two Umpires, One Scorer and Two Assistant Scorers.
2) The decision of the umpires on the field shall be final generally but in special circumstances, the referee may give the decision in the best interest of the game and also if there is a disagreement between two umpires.
3) Gross violations& Foul
The referee and the umpires shall have the power to warn, declare point against, temporarily suspend or to disqualify any player or team from the match who is committing any of the following violations or Foul.
- Persistently addressing the officials in regard to the decision.
- Make derogatory remarks about the officials & action leading to influencing their decision.
- Point out finger by the raider or anti for demanding decision of the umpire.
- Stifle a raider by shutting his mouth or throat by any way.
- Violent tackling leading to injuries to the body.
- Takes more than 5 Seconds to start the raid.
- Hold the raider with the help of scissors operated by legs.
- Coaching from outside by the coaches and the players.
- Preventing the raider to take his turn of raid
4) The referee and the umpire can use the following cards to warn, temporarily suspend, suspend from the match or debar from the tournament a player coach/manager/ team.
- Green Card Warning If green card is shown to a player/ coach/ manager / team twice, then the next card shall be directly Yellow Card.
- Yellow Card Temporary Suspension for 2 Minutes. If yellow card is shown to player/ coach/ manager/team twice, then the next card shall be directly Red Card. Note: The two minutes suspension of players shall commence from the time the player is on court only If the out player is suspended for two minutes than the suspension will begin after revival Teams will not be allowed to revive the next out player in place of the suspended player revival
- Red Card: Suspension from the match or debarred from the Tournament.
5) Duties of the Referee
The Referee shall:
- Take the toss
- Announce the score of each side before the last 5 minutes is declared
- Supervise in general, the conduct of the whole match.
- Record the time, start and end the game
- Announce the substitution & replacement of players.
- Announce the time of each minute of the last 5 minutes of the Second half.
6) Duties of the Umpire
The umpires shall conduct the match and give decisions according to the rules of play and matches till the game is ended.
7) Duties of the Scorer
- Fill in the score sheet & announce the score with the permission of the referee at the end of each half and the result at the end of the match.
- Make a note of the team winning the toss at the start of the game.
- All the points scored by all the players of the team will be recorded in running score on their respective side on the score sheet diagonally ( / )
- Points scored for LONA should be scratched horizontally ( — )
- Bonus point shall be shown in the score sheet by triangle (Δ)
- The team scoring the first leading point shall be shown in the running score by square
- Technical point awarded by the referee or umpire should be encircled (O) in the running score.
- Time out by the teams be indicated by (“T”) against the team concerned
- Keep a note of the timing in the score sheet at the beginning & at the end of each half, time out taken by the teams & officials and record the sub situations made.
- Complete the score sheet in all respects and get it duly signed by the umpires and referee.
8) Duties of the Assistant Scorers
- The Assistant Scorer will maintain the record of the players who are out, in the order of their being put out & revived, of the team to which he is assigned.
- He will also ensure that the players who are put out are seated in the order of their being put out in the sitting block.
- The assistant scorer will point out to the Referee or the Umpires, if any player goes out of bounds
- The Assistant scorer will record the bonus points and technical points scored by the opposite team in order to get the total number of points lost by the team to which he is assigned and also to tally with the main score sheet.
