Hong Kong Lawn Bowls Association

In the Council Meeting of 23 Oct, the Council of Management approved the changes on bye-law 3.5.b

Considering there are Reunification Cup and Finals days coming soon, the league panel special approves to extend the normal 22 day period for re-arranging postponed games until the end of July 2017.

Home side should make offer before 26 June (Mon) and away side should accept or counter offer before 28 June (Wed).

All postponed league matches of the first half season can be played before 1 August 2017 (Tue).

If the match does not complete by 1 August, both sides will be treated as "fail to arrive". Captains are reminded to leave sufficient contingency in order to have the match being finished by 1 August.

In the past, there was grace period for league games in private greens and no grace period in public greens.

With a view to optimizing the use of bowling greens and for standardization, the Council of Management on 16 Jan 2017 resolved that the grace period would be cancelled but start time would remain unchanged. It will be effective in the Premier League 2017.

For details, please refer to attachment. (Pdf)

In addition to Law of Sport of Bowls and HKLBA bye-law, League panel follows a series of practice and policies to manage the league competitions.

These practice and policies are summarized below for bowlers easy reference.