SAMNA Mixed By-laws - CommunityWebs

18. Team and Player Responsibilities:
18.1 All teams must provide their own scorer/timekeeper for the duration of the match.
Penalty for infringement of this rule is five goals added to the opponent's score at the
time the infringement is noticed. If neither team has a scorer a player from each team will
take on the scoring/timekeeping responsibilities.
18.2 Each team must ensure that the scorecard is completed correctly and legibly, signed by
both scorers, both captains and umpires. Teams must ensure that all players are listed on
the scorecards prior to the match start.
18.3 A team shall be held responsible for the conduct of its members and spectators.
18.4 Each team is to provide its own playing bibs; match balls are supplied by SAMNA.
18.5 Each team must provide an umpire to be available each week for all Premier league time
slots. Each umpire will go into a pool and be allocated games by the umpiring coordinator
and by individual negotiation may include men's and social mixed games.
19 Player Reports:
19.1 Players and team officials shall be subject to report by the umpire or any other official of
the association for any form of misconduct.
19.2 Any player or team official that has been reported will be advised in due course by the
SAMNA Board to the following facts:
Date that the report emanated.
Date, time and venue of the tribunal hearing.
19.3 Any person reported will be required to answer the allegations made, either by letter or
by appearing in person at the tribunal hearing. A reported person can be accompanied by
a club official who may be interviewed should the tribunal deem it necessary.
19.4 Non-attendance at a tribunal hearing by the reported person without prior notification
shall be interpreted as an admission of guilt.
19.5 Umpires during the course of a game can issue warnings to players, depending on the
severity of the complaint a formal warning can be listed on the official scorecard. Any
player receiving three carded warnings in a season will be automatically suspended for
one match. Each subsequent warning during that season will incur one match suspension.
19.6 Any player, who is sent off court during a match, will receive an automatic one-week
suspension.