Player Registration - Transfer Deadline 2009/10
Please be aware that the the cut-off date for player transfers this season was Friday 26th February 2010.
The Transfer Deadline applies to all clubs at all levels.
No player may be Effectively Registered after 26th February 2010 to play in any RFU competition this season, unless they fall within the exception set out in Regulation 2.1 of the RFU Registration of Adult Players regulations:
- a Permitted Player or
- he has achieved his seventeenth birthday after the Transfer Deadline and is thereby entitled to Effective Registration for the first time or
- he is a Loan Player seeking Effective Registration with the Club which loaned him and with which he still has a contract (“the loaning club”), the Club to which he was loaned being at least one level below the loaning club
The definition of a Permitted Player is as follows:
“A Player who has not been previously Effectively Registered with any Club during the current season and is also not a Contracted Player, Contracted Overseas Player, Foreign Player or an Overseas Player”
If you need to complete any registrations that you believe are valid for this season, these should be referred to your Regional Registrar in the first instance.
If you have any questions relating to this please contact the Rugby First Support Desk on
020 8831 6651 or at rugbyfirstsupport@therfu.com
RFU.com 
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