EXPLANATORY GUIDELINES REGULATION 8 (c) Players who participate in a Match for the senior or next senior National Representative Team of a Union against a team made up of Players from a Union’s senior Touring Squad during an International Tour which includes International Match(es) approved by World Rugby. (d) Players, representing a Union’s next senior Touring Squad who participate in a Match on an International Tour approved by World Rugby against the senior National Representative Team or the next senior National Representative Team or the next senior National Representative Team of another Union. (e) Players who play for the senior or next senior National Representative Team of a Union against a team selected from a Union’s next senior Touring Squad when such Match is played on an International Tour approved by World Rugby. Seven-a-side (a) Players who play for a Union’s senior National Representative Sevens team in an International Match against the senior National Representative Sevens team of another Union. 6. How do I know which team is a Union’s next senior fifteen-a-side National Representative Team? (a) There should be no uncertainty over which team constitutes a Union’s next senior National Representative Team. Unions are required to notify World Rugby of the name of their nominated next senior National Representative Team. The team nominated remains the Union’s next senior National Representative Team unless the Union notifies World Rugby of a change in this nomination. A Union is entitled to notify World Rugby no more than once per calendar year of a change to its next senior National Representative Team provided that in doing so it shall take account of any Matches such team may be scheduled to play and shall advise the Union of any senior or next senior National Representative Team it is scheduled to play reasonably in advance of such Match. The identity of a Union’s next senior National Representative Team can be verified with the Union concerned and/or World Rugby. (b) Unions must ensure that all persons involved in an International Match (Players and team management including coaching staff) are made aware of the status of their team as the next senior National Representative Team and that of their opposing team where it is the senior or next senior National Representative Team of another Union and what that means from a capturing perspective under Regulation 8. Notwithstanding the Union’s obligation to inform the Player and team management it shall be the sole responsibility of each Player to ensure that he is aware of the status of every Match in which he plays and the implications of playing in an International Last update: 14 January, 2015 140
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