Shooting Rule 4.26 - Referee
Shooting Rule 4.27 - Duties of Referees

Rule 4.26 - Referee
a) To become a registered referee, a candidate shall approach his Club Secretary and President, who (when they consider that the candidate has achieved a satisfactory standard) shall recommend in writing to the nearest registered Referee Examiner on the prescribed form that the candidate be given a practical and oral examination. When the candidate has passed the examination to the Examiner's entire satisfaction, the Examiner will then submit his recommendation plus the form to the ACTA Executive Director, who will issue a Referee badge to the candidate.
Any candidate who has failed and wishes to be re-examined must be re-examined by the same Examiner.
b) The Rules Supervisors will keep a record of all Referees in their State.
c) The Club management complaint of any Referee or Referee Examiner shall be referred to the nearest Rules Supervisor within the State for investigation. The Ruler Supervisor has the power to suspend the person concerned until the State Association Meeting. If justified, the State Association has the power to further suspend and recall the Referee or Referee Examiner's badge and shall advise the ACTA Executive Director of the action taken.
d)Referees shall be appointed for a period of five years and are eligible for re-examination. Any Referee or referee Examiner who fails ro register in any year will have his name automatically removed from the Association Referee and Referee Examiner list.
e) the Referee's decision in all cases coming under his jurisdiction as set forth in the Rules shall be final. Referees are requested to wear their official badge at all shoots.

Rule 4.27 - Duties of Referees
a) The Referee, besides attending to special duties set forth in these Rules, shall adjudicate the competition. He shall distinctly and loudly announce the result of each shot by calling out "One" when the target is broken, except Points Scoring where he shall call "One" or "two". He shall decide all other issues which arise in relation to the direct competition.
b)A Check Referee may be employed for Deauville Doubles and Double Rise competition, with the Chief Referee to give the decision.
c) If the referee is negligent, or inefficient, impairing thereby the equity of the competition, the Management may forthwith remove him. This rule applies also to scorers, target release operators, trappers and any other of the staff.
d) The Referee is empowered to challenge the ammunition used by any competitor.
e) The Referee has power to alter his decision. If altering his decision on "lost target" or "baulk" etc. during the competition, this must be done before the shooter in question shoots his next target or the shooter leaves the tracks should this be his last target.
f) The officiating Referee MUST have the trap adjusted immediately if it is not throwing legal targets. Immediately following such alteration, a target must be thrown and the competition continued. Unauthorised shooters are not to interfere with or attempt to interfere with the setting of the trap. Violation of this rule may be grounds for disqualification from the event.
g) The Referee must have complete knowledge of the Rules of the ACTA and shall adjudicate the competition at all times as set by the Management.
h) It is the Referee's responsibility to announce the conditions as set out in the Rules for each event before the competition commences, also to deploy shooters to their correct firing lanes.
i) As shooting proceeds the Referee must observe that shooters are commencing on their correct mark, not shooting out of turn, are handling their guns with safety, and using the correct cartridges as laid down for each individual event.
j) The Referee must be efficient and alert at all times and it is most important that he should gain the confidence and respect of each and every competitor.