12 December 2023 – Revised Laws 73 & 89 published, to be effective from 1 January 2024. Click here to download the revisions.

The following files have also been amended with these revisions.

Word Files:

• 2017 Laws of Duplicate Bridge – paginated

PDF Files

• 2017 Laws of Duplicate Bridge – paginated

On the proposal of the Chairman of the Laws Committee, Ton Kooijman, the Executive Council in Wuhan, September 2019 approved a gender neutral “translation” of the laws to be published on the Website and this has also been updated with the revisions – Click here to download it

26 June 2023 – The 2017 Commentary to the Laws updated. Click here to download it

Compendium of Relevant WBF Laws Committee Decisions (1998 – 2019) published. Click here to download it

June 20 2017: Following a meeting of the WBF Management Committee, Law 26B was amended. Click here to download the amended version.

Please be aware that the paginated version is only done as an approximation of the way the pagination can be achieved and is not exact, especially with regard to the Scoring Table (Law 77).

Laws Committee Minutes

2023 Marrakech
2022 Wroclaw
2017 Lyon Set 1
2017 Lyon Set 2
2013 Bali Set 1
2013 Bali Set 2
2013 Bali Set 3
2012 Lille
2011 Veldhoven Set 1
2011 Veldhoven Set 2
2010 Philadelphia Set 1
2010 Philadelphia Set 2
2009 SaoPaolo Set 1
2009 SaoPaolo Set 2
2008 Beijing
2007 Shanghai
2004 Istanbul
2003 Monaco
2002 Montreal Set 1
2002 Montreal Set 2
2001 Paris Set 1
2001 Paris Set 2
2001 Paris Set 3
2001 Paris Set 4
2000 Bermuda Set 1
2000 Bermuda Set 2
2000 Bermuda Set 3
2000 Maastricht Set 1
2000 Maastricht Set 2
2000 Maastricht Set 3
1998 Lille Set 1
1998 Lille Set 2
1998 Lille Set 3