[blml] What does "specified" mean in Law 29C?

[Jerry Fusselman]

[Law 29C]

If a call out of rotation is artificial, the provisions of Laws
30, 31 and 32 apply to the denomination(s) specified, rather
than the denomination named.

[Jerry]

What does "specified" mean in Law 29C?

Maybe an example helps.  Some of you did not like the previous example
so well, so here is a new one.  North opens 2C artificial and forcing.
 EW play basically the same defense against artificial, forcing
openings of 1C and 2C.  It is East's turn to call, but West gets
excited and bids 1D, both insufficient and out of rotation.  He
remembered that the same defense in effect as over their 1C
artificial, but he just forgot that he needed 2D to be sufficient.

In EW's system against the artificial forcing club, the cheapest
diamond call both show one of two possible hands:  Either long hearts,
or a two-suited hand with both black suits.  Whichever of the two
hands he has, he (West) probably has fewer than four diamonds.  Also,
if pass is next, Advancer (East) must relay to hearts.

By standard usage, this is obviously artificial and conventional, but
standard usage is irrelevant.  I am focusing on the new definition of
artificial, because that definition supersedes standard usage in the
new laws, as Grattan has mentioned.  I wish we could agree that this
diamond bid is artificial under the new laws.

I guess David Burn would say that 1D provides no information
whatsoever about West's hand, because there is no one definitive
statement about what West has shown.  Also, perhaps, he thinks is
provides no information about West's hand because the main message of
the diamond bid right now is that partner must take it out with a
relay to hearts.  Nevertheless, I will assume 1D is artificial under
the new laws.

David Burn is right that if the call provides no information
whatsoever, it cannot be artificial under the new laws.  But it sure
seems to me that the 1D bid provides information, and that it is
artificial by the new definition.

Anyway, assuming it is artificial, and in light of Law 29C, which
denominations are specified by the diamond bid, and why?  That is,
which denominations do the provisions of Laws 30, 31, and 32 apply to?

Jerry Fusselman