Changes to The Laws of Duplicate Bridge 2017

Today I attended a session at Matamata going over the main changes to the Laws, which come into force on 1 August 2017.

Unless you have studied the Laws previously, the changes will not really have any direct effect on you but you may notice some different rulings when the Director is called.

Lots of Laws have been changed to a greater or lesser extent but the most significant ones are to Law 23 - this is essentially a new Law with the previous content under Law 23 being removed and included within Law 72C.

I am not going to try and explain the changes here but I will be obtaining a document which does so from NZB which I can make available to you.

We have a copy of the new rule book which will be available to you but be aware that there are already further changes planned e.g. Law 26 has already been amended since the new Laws were published.