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Tournament Rules & Procedures
Tournament Rules
The BBNZ Tournaments Policies and Procedures and Judicial Procedures have been intergrated with the Basketball New Zealand Internal Regulations. for a copy of this, please follow the link below.
BBNZ Internal Regulations(pdf 895KB)
Official FIBA Rules 2008 (758KB pdf)
Player Transfer Rule
Players can only represent one association or school at BBNZ tournaments (excluding, CBL and WBL) in any one calendar year (January 1-December 31).
Players under the age of 18 years can apply for transfers to represent a different association by January 31 or within the year by making a special case application to the chief executive of BBNZ.
Players over the age of 18 years will establish their representation in each calendar year upon registration, to participate in a BBNZ tournament. Likewise transfer requests during the year can be made to the chief executive of BBNZ.
The application fee for a transfer is $25 and BBNZ have the responsibility of responding to transfer applications within 10 working days.
2010 Association Player Transfer Form (pdf 67kb)