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The following to be read in conjunction with the above General Rules

1. Clubs with a team in the Knight and Clegg Competitions must play their strongest team in the Clegg Leagues.
2. When a Club runs only one team they will play in the Clegg League unless they request otherwise. The General Purposes Committee will decide in which competition they will play.
3. All games to be 21 ends (unless mutually agreed otherwise) with four Triples playing two bowls each for both teams. No trial ends will be played but one shot will be scored at each of the first two completed ends.
4. 1. If a single player is absent from one or both sides, the game to proceed, the number of bowls in the defaulting side/sides to be made up by the two players playing three bowls each.
      One third of the total shots scored by each rink playing two players to be deducted from its score at the end of the game.
   2. In the event of a player having to withdraw from a match after it has begun he will be replaced by a substitute (if available) who must be a bona fide member of the club and who may not skip. If no substitute is available the other two players on the rink concerned will play three bowls each for the remaining ends and one third of the shots which they score at those ends will be deducted from their total. In this situation the second of the two players will not be designated as a skip for the purposes of Rule 6.
5. The minimum number of players for a League match shall be l0 (Ten): any team with less than ten shall be in default.
6. Skips can only skip in the Knight OR Clegg in the same week but not in both. They can still play as Lead or Second in the 'non-skip` evening. (When postponed matches are eventually played then the Clegg skips who played in the week that the Knight game should have been played cannot skip in the re-arranged Knight game and vice versa).
   If this Rule is breached by a Club playing a skip in a Clegg or Knight match who has already skipped in the other league, whether in the same week or in the week of a postponement, the result of the second of these matches to be played will stand but eight points (8) will be deducted from the offending club's total in the league in which the second match is played.
7. In all League matches six points will be awarded to the Winning Team with three points each in a drawn game. In Addition, two points will be awarded for each individual winning rink with one point for a draw.
8. When a team is in default it will lose fourteen points and twenty shots and the opponents will receive fourteen points and twenty shots.
9. The top three teams in Divisions 2,3,4,5 and 6 will be promoted; the bottom three in Divisions 1,2,3,4 and 5 will be relegated but see General Rule 8 and ll above.