[blml] Law 27B1(b) - 16D exclusion.

[ton]

" It may be more accurate (and safer) to say that a failure to take
the bid at face value may lead to a 27D adjusted score."
       As you say, it is 27B1(b) that we are talking about.
                                                    ~ Grattan ~   +=+ 


ton:
Safer it is, not more accurate. This, simply spoken, should not be the way
to look at it. 
L27D is clear: there will be an AS if without the assistance of the IB the
result could well have been different. 

Not taken the RC at face value can't be called a failure. On the contrary:
it is a bridge technical failure, or one by the TD, to take it at face
value. 

ton