Charles William Alcock

“ If an amateur player is engaged by a Club in any capacity for which he receives remuneration, the Club may be required to prove, to the satisfaction of the Association, that his services as a player do not affect the amount of remuneration paid to him. Players competing for any money prizes in football contests shall be considered professionals. ”

“ Each club must take every precaution to keep its ground in playing condition, and if necessary, either Club may apply to the Association, and the Secretary shall require the Referee or some other person to examine the ground and decide as to its fitness for play in sufficient time to save expenses being incurred by the Clubs of unnecessary journeys. Clubs shall not mutually arrange to play a match in lieu of a Cup Tie. If a match is played to a conclusion, it must be a Cup Tie, but if from any cause a match is not completed it must be replayed the full time of one hour and a half. ”

“ When a player is registered as a professional, he at once loses his status as an amateur. When an amateur player is injured whilst playing football, he shall, upon obtaining the consent of this Association, or the local affiliated Association, be entitled to receive his doctor's fees, or the proceeds of any benefit match, subscription or collection, without losing his amateur status. ”

“ Every Association or Club is responsible to the Council for the action of its players, officials, and spectators, and is required to take all precautions necessary to prevent spectators threatening or assaulting officials and players during or at the conclusion of matches. No official of an Association or Club, Referee, Linesmen, or player shall bet on any Football Match, and Associations and Clubs are also required to prevent betting and the use of objectionable language by spectators. ”

“ A playing member is one who has either actually played for his Club in the current season, or who has, in writing, intimated to the Secretary of the Association that he is a playing member of that Club. The Secretary shall, in writing, acknowledge the receipt of every such intimation. A player qualified to play in any round, shall be deemed qualified to play in any subsequent round by virtue of his original qualification. ”

“ A free kick shall also be awarded to the opposite side if the ball is not kicked forward, or is played a second time by the player who takes the penalty kick until it has been played by another player. The Referee may refrain from putting the provisions of this Law into effect in cases where he is satisfied that by enforcing them he would be giving an advantage to the offending side. If when a penalty kick is taken the ball passes between the goal-posts, under the bar, the goal shall not be nullified by reason of any infringement by the defending side. ”

“ Any League or other combination of Clubs sanctioned by this Association may provide in its Rules for a system whereby a player registered with such League or Combination may be retained, or a transfer fee demanded after the end of a season's engagement. If such provision is made, the Rules of any such League or Combination must provide that a player, if professional, cannot be retained at the end of the season without payment of wages, or the offer of reasonable terms of re-engagement, or if amateur, without being played regularly. ”

“ The Clubs not so excused in each Division shall be divided into six Districts geographically convenient, and shall compete in a Qualifying Competition until only one Club is left in each of the six Districts. The Council shall have the power to divide each District into groups if thought necessary. ”

“ A Professional Club within the area of an Association, the rules of which do not permit of the affiliation of Professional Clubs, may affiliate to this Association, but a Club so affiliated shall not be entitled to representation or voting power, until full membership has been granted by the Council under Rule 3. ”

“ Clubs shall not pay any Player a bonus of more than £4 as a consideration for his signing a professional form. A bonus cannot be paid to a player on his re-signing for his own Club. The maximum wages which may be paid to any player shall be £4 per week or £208 per annum, but this restriction shall not apply to any payment made by this Association in respect of any of its matches. ”

“ A member shall not be allowed to play for more than one competing club, but the players of each representative team may be changed during the series of matches. In the Qualifying Competition each player must have been a playing member of the Club for which he proposes to compete at least twenty-eight days previous to the day fixed for playing the match, except as hereinafter provided. ”

“ Clubs and players shall not compete in any match or competition, the proceeds of which are not devoted to a recognized Football Club or Football Association or some other object approved of by this or by an affiliated Association. ”

“ The Council may fill any vacancy that occurs in their body, appoint a Secretary and such other assistance as they think fit, appoint such Committees or Commissions as they may consider necessary, delegate all or any of their powers to any such Committee or Commission of the Council, or to any affiliated Association or Associations, and make such regulations for the management of the Association and control of the game as from time to time may be necessary. ”

“ Every Club playing in the Competition proper shall, not less than five days before the match, send to the opposing Club a list of players from which the team for such match will be selected; and no objection to the qualification of any player mentioned in such list shall be entertained, unless notice of objection, stating particulars, is given at least twenty-four hours before the commencement of the match. ”

“ Any player unable to agree upon terms of re-engagement or transfer with the Club by which he is registered, shall have a right of, and must, in the first instance, appeal to the Committee of Management of the League or Combination to which such Club is attached. ”

“ A Club not having a private ground shall provide a private or enclosed ground, where gate-money shall be charged for Cup Ties, free of all charge to the visiting Club, or play on its opponents' ground. ”

“ In the Semi-final and Final Ties any Club failing to play, without showing a good and sufficient cause for such failure to play, may be adjudged by the Council to have been guilty of serious misconduct, and liable to be dealt with under Rule 45 of the Association. ”

“ Neither barrister nor solicitor shall represent a Club or player at the hearing of a complaint or claim unless he be the Secretary of the Club concerned, and appear as such in the printed list of secretaries in the official rule book. ”

“ Clubs shall be entitled to retain players to whom they are prepared to pay the maximum wages, unless the players satisfy the Council that there are special grounds for allowing them to change their club. ”