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Frequently used Laws of Duplicate Bridge

5. Revoke (Law 61, 62, 63, 64)
An offender may correct his revoke at any time before he or his Partner plays a card to the next trick.

  1. If the revoke was made by the defending side the revoke card becomes a major penalty card.

  2. If the revoke was made by Declarer or by Dummy the revoke may be corrected without penalty.
The revoke is established (and can no longer be corrected) after the offender or his Partner has played a card to the next trick.

Penalty for an established revoke

  1. If the trick on which the revoke occurred was won by the offending player (with the revoke card), at the end of play that trick plus one trick of any subsequent trick won by the offending side are transferred to the non-offending side.

  2. If the trick on which the revoke occurred was not won by the offending player (with the revoke card), at the end of play only one trick of any subsequent trick won by the offending side is transferred to the non-offending side.
Source :
The Laws of Duplicate Bridge 2007, BridgeNZ (2004) Ltd, 60-D Woodland Rd, Jonsonville Wellington
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