C6.6
Protest Committee Decisions
- (a) The protest committee may take evidence in any way it considers appropriate and may communicate its decision orally.
- (b) If the protest committee decides that a breach of a rule has had no significant effect on the outcome of the match, it may
- (1) impose a penalty of one point or part of one point;
- (2) order a resail; or
- (3) make another arrangement it decides is equitable, which may be to impose no penalty.
- (c) The penalty for breaking rule 14 when damage or injury results will be at the discretion of the protest committee, and may include exclusion from further races in the event.