Safari/Safari Lite Penalties 2017

The Stewards of the Meeting are empowered to apply additional penalties to any competitor adjudged guilty of infringements to the regulations. The Clerk of the Course may also apply certain penalisations. Although these penalties are specifically draughted for Competitive Safaris, similar penalisations apply to other types of competition. Refer to MSA Yearbook for full details.

The Stewards of the Meeting are empowered to apply additional penalties to any competitor adjudged guilty of infringements to the regulations. The Clerk of the Course may also apply certain penalisations. Although these penalties are specifically draughted for Competitive Safaris, similar penalisations apply to other types of competition. Refer to MSA Yearbook for full details.The penalties that the Stewards may impose are as follows:

a) Reprimand
b) Time Penalty (may be anything from 10 seconds up to a 'maximum' )
c) Exclusion
d) Suspension
e) Disqualification

The table below lists some of the most common infringements and the penalties recommended. Repeated infringements may attract higher penalties than those recommended below.

 Offence

 Minimum Penalty

 Maximum Penalty 

 Leaving the limits of the course undirected 

 Reprimand 

 Time Penalty

Indiscriminate removal of course markers

 Reprimand 

 Time Penalty

Deliberate course cutting 

Time Penalty

Exclusion