In truth given that this requirement is not written down anywhere, it can hardly be said to be 'enshrined" here either.
If you start your referee career in England with the national training course we do, you will be told to rehearse CBS in every PMB.
But you don't need to have done that course in order to be a referee in England (you might have qualified in Wales, or Scotland, or in new Zealand or south Africa. Or thirty years ago I'm England when the course was different)
And, if, as a foreign referee you came over here for the RWC next week, and get offered a game by a society here, you won't be given any bit of paper or any other instructions telling you the local PMB requirements. So its evidently not completely critical.
If you start your referee career in England with the national training course we do, you will be told to rehearse CBS in every PMB.
But you don't need to have done that course in order to be a referee in England (you might have qualified in Wales, or Scotland, or in new Zealand or south Africa. Or thirty years ago I'm England when the course was different)
And, if, as a foreign referee you came over here for the RWC next week, and get offered a game by a society here, you won't be given any bit of paper or any other instructions telling you the local PMB requirements. So its evidently not completely critical.
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