[blml] When too late

[Ed Reppert]

On Jan 5, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Eric Landau wrote:

> I asked about this originally in the hope of finding or
> figuring out what the ACBL's rationale for not allowing reservation of
> rights is.

What makes you think they have one? :-)

A BIT is an irregularity. Law 9 requires that, when attention is  
drawn to an irregularity, the director be called immediately. The  
provision for "reservation of rights" in Law 16A1 is the *only*  
exception to this in the Laws. I suppose one could argue that in the  
interests of consistency one should not allow this exception. But  
then the ACBL muddied the waters with the wording of their election,  
which seems to imply you have to wait for some action by the  
recipient of the BIT before calling the TD - which, btw, would be in  
contradiction to law 9. So I don't think the ACBL has a coherent  
rationale for the way they want Law 16A1 to be.