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13. TIME LIMITS

(a) The Manager may impose a time limit of not less than 3 hours (or 2 1/2 hours in a week-end tournament)
(1) on all games in an event, provided that such a-time limit is advertised in advance or announced at the tournament before the start of the event, in which case, subject to Regulation 12(f)(3), it may not be removed; or
(2) on each game in any round of an event.
(b) If no time limit has been imposed under (a) above, the Manager may impose a time limit of one hour on any game that has been in progress for at least 2 hours (or 1 1/2 hours in a week-end tournament).
(c)
(1) When a time limit has been imposed on a game, the players should arrange for an independent person or, failing that, one of themselves to be responsible for announcing audibly that the time limit has been reached.
(2) Play then continues for an extension period in which the striker completes his turn  and his adversary plays one subsequent turn.  For the sole purpose of determining whether the striker's turn ends before or after time is called, it is deemed that his turn ends and the adversary's turn begins as soon as he strikes the striker's ball or is deemed to have played it in the last stroke of his turn.
(3) The side which has scored the greater number of points at the end of the extension period is the winner.  If each side has scored the same number of points, play continues and the side for which the next point is scored is the winner.
(d) No half-bisque or bisque may he played during the extension period or immediately thereafter by the player in play when the extension period ends. If play continues after the end of the extension period under (c)(3) above, any half-bisque or bisques may then be played.
(e) This Regulation is subject to Law 50(c)(1) and Regulations 7(c) and 12(f)(9).
(f) (1) As an alternative to a one-hour time limit imposed under (b) above,or to the final hour of a time limit imposed under (a), the Manager may limit instead the number of further turns to twelve (exclusive of any bisque turns) to be played by each side.
(2) (c)(2) above does not apply but a player whose turn is in progress when the further turns are due to take effect shall complete that turn first.
(3) If the game has not ended before these turns are completed, the side that has scored the greater number of points is the winner. If each side has scored the same number of points, play continues and the side for which the next point is scored is the winner.