BYE-LAW 12. EMERGENCY DECISIONS

12.1 Power of Executive Board to make emergency decisions

12.1.1 Between meetings of the Council, the Executive Board may deal with any emergency matters or otherwise matters of an urgent nature that would ordinarily be dealt with by Council under Bye-Law 9.6 in accordance with the procedure set out in this Bye-Law 12 (excluding changes to the Bye-Laws).

12.1.2 Decisions taken by the Executive Board pursuant to this Bye-Law 12 shall only have effect until the next Council meeting at which the Executive Board shall report to the Council with respect to the emergency or urgent nature of the matter and the decision taken.  Council may ratify the decision or substitute its own decision in its discretion save that where any decision being ratified relates to a change of the Laws of the Game or Regulations such decision would require the minimum number of votes from Council as applicable pursuant to Bye-Law 9.10. 

12.2 Emergency decisions which do not require a change of Bye-Laws, Laws of the Games or Regulations

The Executive Board may make decisions in relation to any emergency and/or urgent matter that would ordinarily be within the purview of Council under Bye-Law 9.6 (excluding changes to the Bye-Laws, Laws of the Game or Regulations).

12.3 Emergency decisions which require a change of any Law of the Game

Subject to Bye-Law 5(c), the Executive Board may make decisions in relation to any genuine emergency and/or urgent matter which relates to a Law(s) of the Game which cannot properly be held over until the next Council meeting and which have the support of each of the Chair, the chairperson of the Rugby Committee – High Performance Game, the Chief Executive Officer and a three-quarters majority of the Executive Committee.  

12.4 Emergency decisions which require a change of the Regulations

The Executive Board may make decisions in relation to any genuine emergency and/or urgent matter which relates to a Regulation(s) which cannot properly be held over until the next Council meeting and which have the support of each of the Chair, the chairperson of the Regulations Board, the Chief Executive Officer and a three-quarters majority of the Executive Committee.