[LAWS]Law 19: The referee awards a scrum for any other reason not covered in law.[/LAWS]
maybe it should say "The referee awards a lineout for any other reason not covered in law" but it doesn't.
you are dissembling !
you quote from Law 19.1 which is about
[LAWS]
Where the game is restarted with a scrum and which team throws in is determined as follows[/LAWS]
so
IF the referee awards a scrum for a reason not covered in Law,
THEN Law 19 tells you that the scrum would be
[LAWS]In the scrum zone at the point closest to the place of stoppage. [/LAWS]
and the put in would go to [LAWS]he team that was last moving forward or, if neither team was moving forward, the attacking team.[/LAWS]
But why award a scrum ?
6.9.f tells you when the when the ball hits an overhead object the ball is dead.
If that object is a tree, and the ball was going out anyway, then a lineout is also within the Law, and would seem to me the best one.
6.9.f allows some judgement, happily. The only option the ref can't do is 'play on' (because the ball is dead)