4. Timing
4.1. All Sections must be timed according to the requirements of Scheduled Time by watches that read to correct GMT / BST time of day.
5. Definitions for Scheduled Timing
5.1. Standard Time is the time of day a notional Competitor number zero would be due at any Control or Check.
5.2. Scheduled Time is the actual time of day each Competitor is required to be at any specific point.
5.3. Scheduled Time can be calculated for any point by taking a Competitor’ s Competition Number multiplying by the time interval between Competitors at the start and adding the result to the standard time at that point.
5.4. Delay Allowance is an allowance free of Penalty granted to specific Competitors following a delay under the instructions of an authorised Official of the Event. Any Delay Allowance must be recorded in writing on the Competitor’ s Time Card by that Official.
5.5. Due Time is the time a Competitor is due at any Control or Check inclusive of any previous lateness. 5.6. Penalised Time is the difference between Due Time and an earlier or later arrival time.
5.7. Penalty Free Lateness allows a Competitor late at one Control to be an equivalent amount late at a succeeding Control without incurring further Penalty.
5.8. Outside Total Lateness( OTL) is the point where a Competitor is considered not to have visited a Control or Check being more than 30 minutes past the Scheduled Time( including any Delay Allowance) unless the Official Documents specify a different period.
5.9. The time of arrival at or departure from a Control other than intermediate and final Controls of Regularity Sections( where App. 4 Art. 6 apply) will be the time at which the Time Card is presented by the Competitor concerned providing all crew members and Vehicles are within the Control area.
5.10. Exceptions to Art. 5.9 above are:
a.
b.
In the Event of a competing Vehicle obstructing other Competitors through being halted or unduly slowed down near a Control the Officials may instruct the Driver to proceed and may then record the time as the time when this instruction is given.
In the Event of a Competitor presenting a Time Card to Officials at a time when the Vehicle is outside the Control area the Officials have discretion as to whether or not to make a record on the Time Card.
5.11. The onus of presenting the Time Card rests with the Competitor.
5.12. The time of reporting at Controls will be recorded to the preceding whole minute when penalties are imposed per minute( for example nine minutes 59 seconds will be recorded as nine minutes.)
5.13. When a Penalty is imposed for timekeeping error of less than one minute the time will be recorded to the preceding second.
5.14. Where a Control at the end of a Section timed to the second also forms the start of a Section timed to the minute the time of departure will be considered as being the same as arrival but ignoring any seconds.
5.15. The Organisers can require any Competitor who is late to reduce their lateness by either foregoing or reducing any period of time provided for remaining at a Control or official halt.
5.16. Competitors may themselves reduce lateness without Penalty in the following ways providing the Section is not defined as Neutral and unless either forbidden to do so by the Official Documents or if by so doing they commit a breach of Art. 5.19 below:
a.
By reporting at any Control following one at which a penalty was applied for lateness at any time not earlier than Scheduled Time.
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