1. Titles

A. Leinster Schools' Junior Section A Development Cup.
B. Leinster Schools' Junior Section A Pennant.
C. Leinster Schools' Junior Section B Fr. Godfrey Cup.
D. Leinster Schools' Junior Challenge Cup.

2. The Cup Competition may be divided into Sections. The semi-finalists or finalists may be drawn to compete in succeeding Sections. Schools. Schools may enter a Section of their choice, subject to the approval of the schools Committee. The Schools Committee shall decide the number of Sections.

3. The Cup shall be open to competition annually to all Schools affiliated to the Branch, or to any School affiliated to any other Branch, provided such School first obtains the consent of the Executive Committee of the Leinster Branch and also of the School's parent Branch.

4. A bona-fide schoolboy is one who:

(a) Has been continually in full regular attendance during school hours (except in case of illness) from 1st October of the season;

(b) is on the Department of Education October Roll Lists and following the recognised Department of Education Syllabus;

(c) Is entered for the relevant Department Examination and is in full regular attendance until the end of the academic year.

In the event of a schoolboy being prevented by illness from giving full regular attendance during school hours, he shall not be disqualified if he can produce to the satisfaction of the Schools' Committee a Medical Certificate covering his period, or periods, of absence.
In this Rule the words "full regular attendance" mean "full regular attendance at the school from which the boy is entered".

5. 3rd Year JCT - U16 1st January 1994

4th Year JCT - U16 1st July 1994

6. No schoolboy shall be allowed to play in the Competition for more than one school in the same season.

7. Schools desirous of competing shall give notice to the Hon. Secretary of the Branch on or before 1st October.

8. The draw for the Competition shall be made by the Schools' Committee and submitted to the Executive Committee for ratification. Each round of ties in the draw shall be completed before any match is played in a subsequent round, unless the Executive Committee shall decide otherwise.

9. The Schools' Committee shall have power to determine the ground on which any match will be played.

10. The duration of each match in the Competition shall be seventy minutes.

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Lifting in Line-out is allowed

11. All matches in the Competition, including replays, shall be played on such dates as may be fixed by the Schools' Committee, who shall have absolute power to fix, vary or postpone the dates for matches.
In the event of a draw, the replay must take place on the fourth day following, unless a Saturday or Sunday intervenes when the replay shall be on the following Monday. After a second replay, it shall be left to the Schools' Committee to decide when the match will be played.

12. A school failing to play-off a tie or a replay on the stipulated date may be adjudged to have forfeited the match.

13. Protests and appeals must be lodged in writing with the Hon. Secretary of the Schools' Section within forty-eight hours after the match (or failure) to which they relate. Protests or appeals must be accompanied by the appropriate fee (see 5.3), which sum shall be forfeited should the objection be deemed frivolous.

14. There shall be a right of appeal from any decision of the Schools' Committee to the relevant Committee, whose decision shall be final.

15. A written guarantee shall be furnished to the Hon. Secretary of the Schools' Section by the Headmaster of each competing School, on or before 1st December in each year, to the effect that the players conform to the foregoing Rules.

16. Each school shall furnish a list of the names of player and numbers (1 to 22 only) to the Leinster Branch at least twenty-four hours before a cup match.

17. (a) Each member of the winning team in each season shall be presented with a
medal.
(b) Each member of the losing finalist squad shall also be presented with a medal.
(c) A pennant shall be presented to the winning School in each season.

18. The Hon. Secretary of the Branch for the time being shall be, for all intents and purposes, the legal owner of the Cup, in trust for the Branch.

19. The Hon. Secretary of the Branch, or his/her representative, shall hand over the Cup to the winners, on receipt of a signed document to the following effect:

"We, ........................................, Headmaster of ........................................... School and ..........................................., the Hon. Secretary of School Football Club, which Club having been declared the winners of the Leinster Schools' Junior Challenge up for season 20......., and the same being delivered by ........................................, the Hon. Secretary of the Leinster Branch, or his/her representative, do hereby, on behalf of the Club, individually and jointly, engage to return same to the Hon. Secretary of the Leinster Branch of the Irish Rugby Football Union on or before 1st February 20......., in as good order and condition as we receive same."

20. In case of any inconsistency between these Regulations and the Bye Laws of the Branch, the said Bye Law shall prevail.