By-Laws
Updated: September 2021
Level Three Offences - Guidelines
Bringing the game into disrepute. |
This may include failure to control a player, official or spectator behaviour resulting in loutish or anti-social behaviour, and which may cause the SMCA or the game of
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Vilification of a major nature. | This includes but is not limited to racial, religious, colour, ethnic origin, cultural, disability, sexuality or severe personal nature. |
Physical assault | Physically assault a player, official, umpire or spectator. |
Serious threatening or intimidating behaviour towards an umpire. | This includes a fieldsman leaving his position in the field to approach an umpire for any reason. This rule does not prohibit the bowler involved in the decision or a team captain from respectfully asking the umpire to provide an explanation for a decision, or the captain from commenting respectfully on the umpires’ performance in their Captains’ Report. |
Web participation by members of the SMCA. | As defined in By-Law 1 Code of Conduct. |
Harassment or bullying of members of the SMCA Executive. | This can be by phone, email or other communication. This generally involves, but is not limited to, obscenities, derogatory and defamatory comments to Executive members for decisions that a member(s) may have made. |