COMPETITIONS SUB-COMMITTEE
TERMS OF REFERENCE
Composition
The Board of Lacrosse Victoria shall appoint at least five men and five women to form the
Competitions Committee.
Duties
Subject to the rules and any resolution passed by the Lacrosse Victoria Board the Competitions
Committee shall:
• Investigate and report to the Board on all applications for admission of new Clubs
• Recommend to the Board the allocation of all teams accepted for competition into the sections
laid down in the By-Laws for the season concerned. The Board may allow such grading at its
discretion;
• Prepare and/or supervise programs for home and away, semi-final, final and grand-final matches,
as directed by the Board;
• Function as a weather committee, whenever there is doubt or a possibility of weather conditions
rendering all or individual grounds or games unfit for play;
• Abandon all matches, or relocate or postpone individual matches which are rendered unplayable
by adverse weather;
• Advise the Secretary of each Club involved, and the Secretary of the Victorian branch of the
Australian Lacrosse Referees Association, or the Officials of women’s lacrosse of a decision to cancel
matches not later than 12.00 midday in the case of senior men’s games and 8.30 am in the case of
junior or women’s games
• Request the news media to broadcast any decision to abandon games
• Inspect or otherwise ascertain the state of grounds programmed for semi-final, final or grand final
matches, and where it finds a ground to be unfit for play, order the match to be played at another
suitable venue
NOTES:
i) If matches are wrongly played by teams in ignorance of a decision of the Competitions Committee
points shall not be awarded for such matches except with the approval of the Board.
ii) Abandoned games shall be regarded as cancelled and shall not be played.
Meetings
The Competitions Committee shall meet at such times and places as it may determine.
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