MOTION 4
SIN BIN
(1) Amend Rule 1.2(ix) (d) - Rules of Control – Official Guide 2019 (Part 2) as follows:
(d) To order off, for ten minutes in a Sin-Bin, a player who commits a Cynical
Behaviour Foul/Infraction by taking his name and showing him a Black Card,
provided the player has not committed a Cautionable Infraction (Yellow Card)
previously in the game.
If on resuming play, the player commits a further Cynical Behaviour
Foul/Infraction, he shall be ordered off by showing him a Black Card, followed by
a Red Card.
The time period in the Sin-Bin shall be of 10 minutes duration, irrespective of
delays.
The ten minutes shall traverse normal time (which includes additional time) and
Extra Time, if played.
Rules affected: Rules 1.2(ix)(e) and 4.1, Rules of Control; Rules 2.4(i) and (iv), 2.6 Rules of
Specification; Rules 5.10 – 5.14 inclusive, Rules of Football.
(2) Amend Rule 2.6(a) - Rules of Specification – Official Guide 2019 (Part 2) as follows:
(a) Any fifteen players may start Extra Time.
Exceptions
(i) As provided in (b) and (d) below.
(ii) A player in receipt of a Black Card and ordered to the Sin-Bin for ten
minutes with less than ten minutes remaining in normal time shall be one
of the fifteen players but shall serve his remaining time in the Sin-Bin in
the Extra-Time.
(3) Add to Rule 4.1 – Duties of Sideline Official - Rules of Control – Official Guide (Part 2) as
follows:
(f) To monitor and control the operation of the Sin-Bin.
Rules affected: Rules 1.2(d)(e), Rules of Control; Rules 2.4 (i) and (iv), 2.6,
Rules of Specification; Rules 5.10 – 5.14 (inclusive), Rules of Football.
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(4) Amend Rule 2.4 The Players - Rules of Specification – Official Guide (Part2) as follows:
(i) The maximum number of substitutions permitted during the playing of normal
time shall be five.
(ii) No change proposed.
(iii) No change proposed.
(iv) A Substitution is not allowed in the case of a player ordered off except as
permitted by Rule 2.6(d), Rules of Specification.
(v), (vi) and (viii) No changes proposed.
Rules affected: Rule 1.2(ix) (d) and (e); Rules 5.10 to 5.14 (inclusive), Rules of
Football.
(5) Amend Rules 5.10 to 5.14 (inclusive) - Rules of Football – Official Guide 2019 (Part 2) by
altering Penalties to read: Order the offender off by showing him a Black Card.
(i) Order the offender off for ten minutes in the Sin-Bin by showing him a Black Card.
Exception:
If the offender has previously in the game received a Yellow Card for committing
a Cautionable Infraction, he shall be shown a Black Card, followed by a Red Card,
and ordered off for the remainder of the game, including any Extra-Time when
played.
(ii) If, on resuming play after serving ten minutes in the Sin-Bin, a player commits a
further Cynical Behaviour (Black Card) or Cautionable Infraction (Yellow Card)
Infraction he shall be shown a Black or Yellow Card, as appropriate, followed by a
Red Card, and ordered off for the remainder of the game, including any Extra-Time
when played
Penalties listed in (iii) in current above Rules to be unchanged.
Rules affected: Rules 1.2(ix) (d) and (e) and 4.1, Rules of Control; Rules 2.4 and 2.6, Rules
of Specification.
(6) Amend Rule 7.2 Category II - Penalties – Official Guide 2019 (Part 1) as follows:
Penalties:
(i) Fixed Penalty for 1st Infraction – the offender shall serve ten minutes in the Sin-Bin.
Exception:
If the offender has previously in the game received a Yellow Card for committing a
Cautionable Infraction, he shall be debarred from playing for the remainder of the
game, including any Extra-Time when played.
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(ii) Fixed Penalty – If on resuming play after serving ten minutes in the Sin-Bin, a player
commits a further Cynical Behaviour or a second Cautionable Infraction, he shall be
debarred from playing for the remainder of the game, including any Extra-Time
when played.
(iii) Fixed Penalty for an accumulation of three ordering-offs for Cynical Behaviour or
Second Cautionable Infractions committed in the same year in the National Football
League, the Inter-County Senior Football Championship or in a combination of both
Competitions:
A One Match Suspension applicable to the next game in the combination of the
National Football League-Inter-County Senior Football Championship, even if that
game occurs in the following year.
The serving of the ten minutes in the Sin-Bin shall not count as an “ordering off”
under this provision of Rule.
The above Penalties shall be noted under ‘For Information Purposes Only’ after Category
II Infractions in Official Guide Part 2, 2019.
