Super Rugby Pacific administrators are set to trial the new Fan-centric law to the game in the upcoming 2023 Shop N Save Super Rugby Pacific season which kicks off next Friday.
The new law will see a change in time limits on goal kicks and set pieces, as well as a more streamlined Television Match Official (TMO) process.
Referees will enforce 90 seconds time restrictions on conversions, 60 seconds for penalty kicks and 30 seconds for scrums and lineouts to be set, and five seconds for the ball to be used at rucks.
TMOs will only interrupt play for serious, clear and obvious incidents of foul play.
Other law implementations include the 20-minute red card rule, where a player who receives a red card can be replaced by another player after 20 minutes.
If the trial is deemed successful, the rules could be adopted by World Rugby before the end of the year.
The first round of the Super Rugby Pacific kicks off next Friday when the Crusaders play the Chiefs at 6.05pm in Christchurch.
[Source: 702.co]
