2. Registration Fees

 (a) Club Fees. Each competitor shall be charged (or have paid on his behalf) a registration fee for each day and for each class in which he completes. At its option, the Host Club may charge a registration fee not to exceed $20.00 per day, including NBRSA, Inc. registration fees. An additional $5.00 may be charged for each additional class a competitor completes in, in one day. If both stages are fired in one day, an additional $5.00 may be charged for each class.

 (b) National Championship Tournaments Registration Fees are to be $20.00 per day maximum, regardless of the number of classes or stages fired in one day.

 (c) NBRSA Fees. The Host Club shall pay the NBRSA, Inc. $1.50 per competitor per day for a Registered Tournament, not to exceed $100.00, except for a National Championship Tournament, which will be $1.50 per competitor per day with no limit. Registration Fees are to be sent to NBRSA Headquarters within 30 days of the Match and shall be accompanied by a properly completed voucher and match report.

 3. Match Entry Fees. At registered NBRSA, Inc. Tournaments, competitors will not be required to pay the cash awards match fees, unless they wish to. In those cases where merchandise prizes are to be awarded in lieu of cash, a competitor shall pay the match fee, if he wants to compete for same. Competitors not paying match entry fees will not participate in prize awards but will receive credit and ranking for groups and aggregates fired, including recognition for any record group or aggregate. Any Club holding a Registered tournament and which does not undertake to return 100% of the match entry fees as awards shall so state in its program.

 4. Pre-Registration. Pre-registration is required for all National Matches. The registration fee is fully returnable in the event that the shooter cannot attend the match, but a $10.00 penalty is mandatory if a shooter does not complete his registration thirty (30) days prior to the match.

 5. Selection of Relay. Clubs conducting Registered Tournaments have the privilege of permitting competitors to select their relay but the Clubs cannot alter the NBRSA, Inc. rule governing the selection of benches.

 6. Drawing for Benches. The Host Club (through its representative), having a list of competitors, shall conduct a drawing for benches in the presence of the shooters of the relay affected. One of the Referees shall be present to see that the drawing is fairly conducted and to represent shooters not present when called upon to draw. Latecomers must draw their benches by lot in the presence of the Chairman Referee. Clubs have the option of having but one drawing and requiring each competitor to shoot from the same bench for all matches at all ranges or they may allow two drawings--one for the matches at 100 yards, and a separate drawing for the matches at 200 yards. Having drawn a bench or benches, a competitor will not be permitted to make any further changes in relay or benches, except when through some physical condition a hardship results. In which case, before the second event, but not thereafter, the Range Officer may change the assignment of bench or relay or both in such a way as to relieve the hardship. For a two-gu three-gun, or four-gun aggregate, the Host Club may elect to have only one drawing for benches. However, they must rotate after each match or after each class and/or range change. This is to facilitate the Statistician in computing these multiple class aggregates.

 At National Championship Tournaments, a system of bench rotation will be used whereby each competitor will fire his first match on the assigned bench and each following event he shall move a predetermined number of benches to the right. This bench rotation system may be used at any NBRSA Match when so elected by the Match Sponsors.

 Host Clubs must definitely state in their program for each tournament whether they will hold one or two drawings for benches, or if they will use the bench rotation system.

 7. Inspection of Equipment. A Referee, before each relay of the first event, shall inspect the rifles and rest of all competitors in that relay and, except under protest, no competitor shall use in that match, or in any other, any rifle or equipment which is not approved. No competitor having gained approval of rifle and equipment shall make any substitution thereafter without submitting such proposed substitute items to the Chairman Referee for approval.

 In matches in which a weight or dimension factor is involved, the Host Club shall provide an accurate scale, which shall be available to the competitors at that match. It is recommended that each range purchase certified weights; however, the weights may be borrowed for the match. It is the responsibility of the Host Range to have such weights available at and during each and every Registered Match. If weights are not available, the match will be considered unregistered and no possibility of records may exist. The Host Club must also provide a steel rule and a pair of calipers or a micrometer having a maximum capacity in excess of 1.25". In weighing rifles with scope attached, an excess of one-half of an ounce shall be attributed to scale error.

 At all Registered Matches, rifle will be weighed. The time of the weighing shall be at the discretion of the Referees. Any violation of this inspection rule will result in disqualification.

 At the completion of all registered matches, the equipment of each range aggregate winner and the grand aggregate winner can be checked by the Referees to ascertain that all said equipment have met legal requirements.

 8. Protest and Appeals. Any competitor in a Registered Tournament who feels aggrieved at a decision of the Range Officer, or the Referees, may, before leaving the range on the day the grievance arose, upon payment of a protest fee of $5.00, appeal from such decision by filing a written notice of appeal with the Range Officer. Such notice of appeal, with any written argument submitted by the appellant, together with a statement in writing signed by the Official from whose decision the appeal has been taken, shall be forwarded promptly to the Regional Director of the area in which the tournament was held. The Regional Director shall append his comments and forward the record to the National Executive Committee of NBRSA which shall decide the appeal without undue delay. The decision of the National Executive Committee shall be final, and if the protest is overruled, all fees paid by appellant shall be forfeited to NBRSA. If the appeal is sustained, the protest fee shall be repaid, and all scores fired by appellant shall be acceed.