[blml] Law 24

[Grattan Endicott]

from Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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"Say, from whence you owe
this strange intelligence?"
                     (Macbeth 1.sc3)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Landau" <ehaa at starpower.net>
To: "Bridge Laws Discussion List" <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] Law 24
> 
> It has been made quite clear on BLML, however, 
> that, in the official opinion of the WBF, L80F does 
> provide for Regulating Authority to change it, effectively 
> without restriction.
> 
+=+ Wilful misrepresentation. What has been repeated 
on numerous occasions over many years is that Law 80F 
is not a restriction on regulations authorized under other 
Laws, for example 80E, 78D, 40E, 40D, each of which 
is  self-contained. I first encountered this stance in the 
Committee when we were chaired by Edgar Theus but 
the question was treated as generally accepted so 
presumably it had been settled before my time.
       The other relevant statement of the Committee is of
more recent origin. It allows that, where the WBFLC has 
promulgated no interpretation of a Law, interim 
interpretations are made by authorities lower in the 
hierarchy. In the present instance I think we are looking 
at a matter of interpretation, not of regulation.
                    ~ Grattan ~   +=+