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The Rugby Football Union Committee have decided (in accordance with Law 6 re professionalism, which reads thus: that an inquiry shall be instituted in such place, at such time, and in such manner as the Rugby Union Committee shall direct) to empower the County Committees to investigate any charge of professionalism or any offences incurred under Laws 45 and 49 against either any club or any member of any club in the respective County Unions, and to empower them to adjudicate on any such cases coming before them and to suspend the offending club or player as in Rule 4 re professionalism.

That any suspended club or player shall have the right of appeal to the Rugby Union Committee, and that the Committee shall have full power either to annul such suspension altogether or to enlarge, shorten, or otherwise vary the period of such suspension, and that an appeal must be lodged with the secretary of the Rugby Football Union within seven days of the meeting at which the sentence was passed.

That such appeal must be accompanied with a deposit of £50, and that the Rugby Football Union Committee shall have absolute power to confiscate, return, or otherwise deal with such deposit as they shall think fit.

That the County Committees must take shorthand notes of all proceedings in reference to any of these points and must themselves pay all expenses incidental to such proceedings.

The Rugby Football Union Committee reserve to themselves the right at any time to adjudicate on any professional questions that may arise.