CHAPTER VI
The Play ![polish version](../poland.gif)
PART III
IRREGULAR LEADS AND PLAYS
SECTION ONE
LEAD OUT OF TURN
LAW 53
- LEAD OUT OF TURN ACCEPTED ![polish version](../poland.gif)
- A. Lead out of Turn Treated as Correct Lead
- Any lead faced out of turn may be treated as a correct lead. It becomes
a correct lead if declarer or either defender, as the case may be, accepts
it (by making a statement to that effect), or if the player next in rotation
plays
to the irregular lead, but see Law 47E1.
(If no acceptance statement or play is made, the Director will require
that the lead be made from the correct hand.)
- B. Wrong Defender Plays Card to Declarer's
Irregular Lead
- If the defender at the right of the hand from which the lead out of
turn was made plays
to the irregular lead, the lead stands and Law 57
applies.
- C. Proper Lead Made Subsequent to Irregular
Lead
- If it was properly the turn to lead of an opponent of the player who
led out of turn, that opponent may make his proper lead to the trick of
the infraction without his card being deemed played to the irregular lead.
When this occurs, the proper lead stands, and all cards played in error
to this trick may be withdrawn without penalty. (Law 16C2
applies to a defender.)
But see 53C.
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