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 of any Club if they deem such a course desirable, Clubs desiring to be excused the Qualifying Competition under Rule ii, must give notice of such desire, and forward their entrance fees before the 15th day of May in each year.

7. A member shall not be allowed to play for more than one competing club, but the players of each representative team may be changed during the series of matches. In the Qualifying Competition each player must have been a playing member of the Club for which he proposes to compete at least twenty-eight days previous to the day fixed for playing the match, except as hereinafter provided. In the first round of the Qualifying Competition no such twenty-eight days' qualification is required, and in the second round, when it is fixed to be played within twenty-eight days from the date fixed for the first round, each player must have been a playing member of the Club for. which he proposes to compete at least fourteen days previous to the day fixed for playing the match. For the purposes of the Qualifying Competition a playing member of a Club is one who has either actually played for the Club during the current or the previous Season, or one who has since the previous Season m writing intimated to the Secretary of the Association that he is a playing member of that Club. The Secretary of the Association shall, in writing, acknowledge the receipt of every such intimation. In the Competition proper each player must have played twice for his Club in the current season twenty-eight days at least previous to the day fixed for playing the match. In the case of postponed, drawn, or re-played matches, only those players shall be allowed to play who were eligible on the date fixed for the completion of the round in which the match was originally played. The twenty-eight and fourteen days qualifications are not required for a player playing with a Club consisting of old boys of any one Public School. Such Public School player shall also be eligible to play in the Competition Proper, although he may not have played twice for his Club in the current season.

8. If the Council have any doubt as to the qualification of any player taking part in this competition, they shall have power to call upon such player, or the Club to which he belongs, or for which he played, to prove that he is qualified according to the Rules, and failing satisfactory proof the Council may disqualify such player, and may remove the Club from the