Assessment of seriousness of the Foul Play
17.19.2 Disciplinary Committees or Judicial Officers shall undertake an
assessment of the seriousness of the Player’s conduct that constitutes the
offending and categorise that conduct as being at the lower end, mid
range or top end of the scale of seriousness in order to identify the
appropriate entry point for consideration of a particular incident(s) of Foul
Play where such incident(s) is expressly covered in Appendix 1. The
assessment of the seriousness of the Player’s conduct shall be
determined by reference to the following features:
(a) whether the offending was intentional or deliberate;
(b) whether the offending was reckless, that is the Player knew
(or should have known) there was a risk of committing an act of
Foul Play;
(c) the gravity of the Player’s actions in relation to the offending;
(d) the nature of the actions, the manner in which the offence was
committed including part of body used (for example, fist, elbow, knee
or boot);
(e) the existence of provocation;
(f) whether the Player acted in retaliation and the timing of such;
(g) whether the Player acted in self-defence (that is whether he used a
reasonable degree of force in defending himself);
(h) the effect of the Player’s actions on the victim (for example, extent of
injury, removal of victim Player from the game);
(i) the effect of the Player’s actions on the Match;
(j) the vulnerability of the victim Player including part of victim’s body
involved/affected, position of the victim Player, ability to defend
himself;
(k) the level of participation in the offending and level of premeditation;
(l) whether the conduct of the offending Player was completed or
amounted to an attempt; and
(m) any other feature of the Player’s conduct in relation to or connected
with the offending.
Based on the assessment of the offence(s) under consideration against
the above features of offending, the Disciplinary Committee or Judicial
Officer shall categorise the act of Foul Play as being at the lower end, mid
range or top end of the scale of seriousness of offending and identify the
applicable entry point as set out in Appendix 1.
17.19.3 For offences categorised at the top end of the scale of seriousness of
offending, the Disciplinary Committee or Judicial Officer shall identify an
entry point between the period shown as the top end for the particular
office and the maximum sanction in Appendix 1.
