Officiating

Sunglasses and Acrlyic nails

Question: Please can you advise what action can be taken against players with acrylic nails. We are getting more and more incidents of players turning up to play who have acrylic nails.

Answer: Rule 1.4.5 clearly states that Fingernails, shall be short and smooth. If their fingernails conform to this rule then they can participate, whether their nails are square or round.

Please beware that should a player be wearing Acrylic nails which do not conform to the above, then they should not participate according to the rule. If the players Acrylic nails do conform to the rule, and they subsequently suffer damage to their nail(s) then, they participate at their own risk and they would not covered by any England Netball Insurance.

Another directive which has been agreed by the EN Rules board in relation to the wearing of Sunglasses whilst participating in England Netball activities
Sunglasses should not normally be worn when participating in Netball activities. However, sunglasses may be worn for genuine medical reasons when participating in recognised and authorised EN netball activities. If sunglasses are required for genuine medical reasons, then an appropriate medical certificate must be supplied to England Netball (or the appropriate league, county or region)
If a player / coach / official has to wear glasses for medical reasons then she / he is fully insured from an EN point of view. But , if the glasses become damaged due to a netball accident then these are not insured.
This guidance applies to Netball Activities within England Netball only.
 

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