A. Before Both Sides Play to Next Trick
When a player has omitted to play to a trick, or has
played too many cards to a trick, the error must be rectified if attention is
drawn to the irregularity before a player on each side has played to the
following trick.
1. To rectify omission to play to a trick, the offender
supplies a card he can legally play.
2. To rectify the play of too many cards to a trick, Law
45E (Fifth Card Played to a Trick) or Law 58B (Simultaneous Cards from One
Hand) shall be applied.
B. After Both Sides Play to Next Trick
After both sides have played to the
following trick, when attention is drawn to a defective trick or when
the Director determines that there had been a defective trick (from the fact that
one player has too few or too many cards in his hand, and a correspondingly
incorrect number of played cards), the Director establishes which trick was
defective. To rectify the number of cards, the Director should proceed as
follows.
1. When the offender has failed to play a card to the
defective trick, the Director shall require him forthwith to expose a card
face-up in front of him and then place it appropriately among his played cards
(this card does not affect ownership of the trick); if
(a) the offender has a card of the suit led to the defective
trick, he must choose such a card to place among his played cards. He is deemed
to have revoked on the defective trick and is subject to the loss of one trick
transferred in accordance with Law 64A2.
(b) the offender has no card of the suit led to the defective
trick, he chooses any card to place among his played cards. He is deemed to
have revoked on the defective trick and is subject to the loss of one trick
transferred in accordance with Law 64A2.
2. (a) When the offender has played more than one card to
the defective trick, the Director inspects the played cards and requires the
offender to restore to his hand all extra cards*, leaving among the played
cards the one faced in playing to the defective trick (if the Director is
unable to determine which card was faced, the offender leaves the highest
ranking of the cards that he could legally have played to the trick). Ownership
of the defective trick does not change.
(b) A restored
card is deemed to have belonged continuously to the offender’s hand, and a
failure to have played it to an earlier trick may constitute a revoke.
* The Director should avoid, when possible, exposing a
defender’s played cards, but if an extra card to be restored to a defender’s
hand has been exposed, it becomes a penalty card (see Law 50).