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22 or, if the striker feint at striking the ball, the stroke may be taken again.

d) If, as a result of the penalty stroke:

i) the whole ball pass completely over the goal-line between the goal posts and under the cross-bar, a goal is scored.

ii) there be a breach of any rule by the goal-keeper which prevents a goal from being scored, the umpire shall award a goal, unless such breach shall have been induced by the striker as in the last paragraph of (d) (iii) above,

iii) the ball should come to rest inside the circle, be lodged in the goal-keeper’s pads, be caught by the goal keeper or pass outside the circle, in all cases, the penalty stroke is ended. Unless a goal has been scored or awarded, the game shall be re-started by a free hit to be taken by a defender from a spot in front of the centre of the goal-line and 16 yards from the inner edge of that line.

e) All time taken between the award of the penalty stroke and resumption of play shall be added to the time of play.

EXPERIMENTAL RULES :

Ata meeting of the Hockey Rules Board held in London on 7th March 1981, it was agreed that the following rules should be introduced on an experimental basis from the 1st Septemper 1981, unless otherwise indicated.