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ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

provide for the sale of tickets, and the visiting Club for checking the sale. The expenses of sellers and checkers shall not be a charge on the gate. All members or ticket holders shall pay the admission charges to the ground and stands.[1] The gate receipts shall be approximately divided immediately after the match, and a full statement and settlement shall be made within seven days of the match.[2]

27. When a match is postponed through causes over which neither Club has any control, the expenses shall be paid out of the receipts of the second match.

28. In any match ordered to be re-played in consequence of a breach of Rule, the Club in default shall not receive any share of the proceeds of such re-played match (except third-class railway fares for the eleven players) without the consent of the Council, and such consent shall only be given under special circumstances. If consent be not given, the share shall be taken by the Association.

29. A Club not having a private ground shall provide a private or enclosed ground, where gate-money shall be charged for Cup Ties, free of all charge to the visiting Club, or play on its opponents' ground.

30. The Council shall, at the end of each year, ascertain the balance in favour of the General Account (as provided for by Rule 19 of the Association), and shall divide such balance amongst the Clubs competing in the Semi-final and Final Ties pro rata as to the net gate receipts of each particular tie, provided always, that the sum to be so divided shall not in any case exceed the total sum of the net gate receipts of the Semi-final and Final Ties.

31. When the winning Club shall have been ascertained, the Association shall deliver the Cup to such Club, which shall be responsible for its return to the Treasurer of the Association

    the proceeds, in cases where the opposing club declines to join in the expenses of the erection, A temporary stand becomes a permanent one if used after the match for which it was erected.

  1. All members, and also ladies and boys, must be charged for admission to ground, enclosure, and stands in matches in all Cup Ties. The minimum admission to matches in the Qualifying Competition shall be fourpence, and to matches in the Competition Proper sixpence. Associations and Clubs are recommended to grant free admission, where practicable, to soldiers and sailors wearing His Majesty's uniform.
  2. Expenses for clearing the ground of snow, and in other ways preparing the ground, must be borne by the home Club.