LAWS OF DUPLICATE CONTRACT BRIDGE 1997
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LAW
62		 CORRECTION OF A REVOKE_

A. Revoke Must Be Corrected
A player must correct his revoke if he becomes aware of the irregularity before it becomes established.
B. Correcting a Revoke
To correct a revoke, the offender withdraws the card he played in revoking and follows suit with any card.
1. Defender’s Card
A card so withdrawn becomes a penalty card (Law 50) if it was played from a defender’s unfaced hand.
2. Declarer’s or Dummy’s Card, Defender’s Faced Card
The card may be replaced without penalty if it was played from declarer’s or dummy’s hand (17), or if it was a defender’s faced card.
C. Subsequent Cards Played to Trick
1. By Non-offending Side
Each member of the non-offending side may, without penalty, withdraw any card he may have played after the revoke but before attention was drawn to it (see Law 16C).
2. By Partner of Offender
After a non-offender so withdraws a card, the hand of the offending side next in rotation may withdraw its played card, which becomes a penalty card if the player is a defender (see Law 16C).
D. Revoke on Trick Twelve
1. Must Be Corrected
On the twelfth trick, a revoke, even if established, must be corrected if discovered before all four hands have been returned to the board.
2. Offender’s Partner Had Not Played to Trick Twelve
If a revoke by a defender occurred before it was the turn of his partner to play to the twelfth trick, and if offender’s partner has cards of two suits, (penalty) offender’s partner may not choose the play that could possibly have been suggested by seeing the revoke card.
(17) Subject to Law 43B2(b), when dummy has forfeited his rights. A claim of revoke does not warrant inspection of quitted tricks except as permitted in Law 66C.



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