[blml] 2007 laws

[Grattan Endicott]

Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet .co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henk Uijterwaal" <henk at ripe.net>
To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Cc: <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] 2007 laws


> Hi,
>
>> 4. It now appears to be illegal for NBOs to conduct extraterritorial
>> games, e.g., the ACBL games in Britain and Germany.
>
> Aren't the military bases in .uk and .de American territory?  I.e. the
> game will be in the US, thus ACBL land.
>
> (The last time I was on such a base, it looked like the US, pay in
> US$ instead of DEM or NLG and the German/Dutch laws for shop opening
> hours didn't apply which was great.)
>
>
>>   (L80A1c.  Sensible clubs will simply ignore this and get on with their
>> games.)
>
> Yes, I wonder what problem we are trying to solve here ;-)
>
> Henk
>
+=+ I imagine that the tournaments in question are conducted under the
auspices of  a Zonal Authority - Law 80A1(b) -   ~ Grattan ~ +=+