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Modified March 1999

8. SPECTATOR REFEREE

(a) To intervene to ensure that play is lawfully continued after an error is claimed or admitted.
(b) To intervene if he hears a player giving erroneous information on the Laws to his adversary.
(c) To intervene in a handicap game if a ball is wrongly removed from the game in breach of Law 39.
(d) To volunteer relevant information to a Referee on Appeal.
(e) To apply to the Tournament Referee to be placed in charge of a game.  If so appointed after he has observed that a particular error has been committed, he may not act in respect of that error or draw attention to a misplaced clip until the error has been claimed or admitted or the limit of claims has passed.