• When a Defender has a minor penalty card he may not play any other card below the rank of an Honour until he has first played the penalty card. But he is entitled to play a Honour card instead. Offender's Partner is not subjected to lead restriction.
  (But information gained through seeing the penalty card is unauthorised information, in which case the Director may award an adjusted score.)

3. Opening lead out of turn (Law 54, 53)
When the Opening lead is made out of turn, Declarer has three options :

1. Declarer accepts the lead
   Dummy spread his hand as usual, then the second card to the trick is played from Declarer's hand.

2. Declarer accepts the lead and prefers to become Dummy
   In this case Declarer spreads his hand, and Dummy becomes the Declarer. (Provided Dummy had not already faced part or all of his hand on the table.)

3. Declarer does not accept the lead
   In this case the lead is made from the proper Defender, while the lead out of turn card becomes a major penalty card. The major penalty card laws now apply.

4. Lead out of turn (later in the play : Law 56, 54D)
Any lead faced out of turn may be treated as a correct lead.
It becomes a correct lead if Declarer or either Defender (as the case may be), accepts it by making a statement to that effect, or if a card is played from the hand next in rotation to the irregular lead.

If there is no such an acceptance of play, the Director will require that the lead is made from the correct hand. In this case the incorrectly lead card becomes a major penalty card.