[blml] ...have we really come to this??? [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Tim West-Meads:

>Perhaps the event pre-dated the 87 lawbook and a precise
>limitation of both natural and conventional 1D openers
>would have been legal.

Richard Hills:

The 1975 Law 40D and the 1975 Law 40E1 gave sponsoring
organisations *less* regulatory power over natural bids
than the 1997 Law 40D and the 1997 Law 40E1 do.

1975 Law 40D (Regulation of Conventions):

"The sponsoring organisation may regulate the use of
bidding or play conventions."

1975 Law 40E1 (Convention Card - Right to Prescribe):

"The sponsoring organisation may prescribe a convention
card on which partners may list their conventions, and
may establish regulations for its use."

Compare and contrast the 1997 Law 40E1:

"The sponsoring organisation may prescribe a convention
card on which partners are to list their conventions

***and other agreements***

and may establish regulations for its use, including a
requirement that both members of a partnership employ the
same system (such a regulation must not restrict style
and judgement, only method)."

As I recall, one WBF tournament adopted a special Law 40E1
regulation forbidding the use of any partnership agreement
unless that partnership agreement was written on the
prescribed WBF convention card.  This regulation failed to
achieve its intended outcome.  Players using varied and
complex agreements simply used a tiny font when typing up
their WBF convention cards.

:-)


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
Level 6 Aqua Training Suite, DIAC
02 6225 6776

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