28. FAULTS

1. DEFINITIONS Subject to Law 28(d), a fault is committed if, during the striking period, the striker:
   1. touches the head of the mallet with his hand, or slides the mallet along his foot or leg to guide it;
   2. rests the shaft of the mallet or a hand or arm on the ground or an outside agency;
   3. rests the shaft of the mallet or a hand or arm directly connected with the stroke against any part of his legs or feet;
   4. moves the striker's ball other than by striking it with the mallet audibly and distinctly;
   5. causes or attempts to cause the mallet to strike the striker's ball by kicking, hitting, dropping or throwing the mallet;
   6. strikes the striker's ball with any part of the mallet other than an end face of the head, either:
      1. deliberately; or
      2. accidentally in a stroke which requires special care because of the proximity of a hoop or the peg or another ball;
   7. 1. In a croquet stroke, or continuation stroke when the striker's ball is touching another ball, allows the mallet to contact the striker's ball visibly more than once; or
      2. in any other stroke, allows the mallet to contact the striker's ball more than once; or
      3. in any stroke, allows the mallet to remain in contact with the striker's ball for an observable period;
   8. allows the mallet to be in contact with the striker's ball after the striker's ball has hit another ball;
   9. strikes the striker's ball so as to cause it to touch a hoop upright or, unless the striker's ball is pegged out in the stroke, the peg when in contact with the mallet;
   10. strikes the striker's ball when it lies in contact with a hoop upright or, unless the striker's ball is pegged out in the stroke, the peg otherwise than in a direction away therefrom;
   11. moves or shakes a ball at rest by hitting a hoop or the peg with the mallet or with any part of his body or clothes;
   12. touches any ball, other than the striker's ball, with the mallet;
   13. touches any ball with any part of his body or clothes;
   14. in a croquet stroke, plays away from or fails to move or shake the croqueted ball;
   15. damages the court with the mallet, to the extent that a subsequent stroke played over the damaged area could be significantly affected, in a stroke in which either:
       1. his swing is restricted by a hoop, or the peg, or a ball not in contact with the striker's ball; or
       2. he is attempting to make the striker's ball jump; or
       3. the striker's ball is part of a group.
2. REMEDIES
   1. If the striker commits a fault and the error is discovered before two further strokes of the striker's turn, any points scored in either the first or second stroke in error are cancelled and the turn ends.
   2. The striker must ask the adversary whether he wishes the fault to be rectified. If the adversary elects rectification, the balls are replaced in accordance with Law 22(d). Otherwise the balls remain or are replaced in the positions they occupied after the first stroke in error (but see Law 37(h) for handicap play).
3. SPECIFIED TERM
   Clothes include everything being worn or carried by the striker at the start of the stroke, other than his mallet, and are treated as part of the striker's body.
4. EXEMPTIONS
   1. Contact between the mallet and the striker's ball is not a fault under Laws 28(a)(7) or 28(a)(8) if it occurs after the striker's ball:
      1. makes a roquet; or
      2. scores the peg point; or
      3. hits a ball pegged out in the stroke.
      However, exemption (A) does not apply if the striker's ball has hit another object after making the roquet.
   2. A fault is not committed under Laws 28(a)(1-3) if the touching, resting or sliding occurs after the striker has completed the swing in which he played the stroke.