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This website is maintained on behalf of the Women's Rules and Umpiring Committee of English Lacrosse. It aims to provide detailed information and assistance for women's lacrosse umpires and those who wish to find them. We hope that you find these pages useful, and would be pleased to hear from you with any comments or suggestions as to further sections you would like to see. Additional information about lacrosse is available from the main English Lacrosse website at www.englishlacrosse.co.uk

ONLINE RULES TEST DEADLINE HAS PASSED
If you failed to take and pass the online rules test by 31 January 2010 any rating you held at that date has lapsed, and you are no longer a qualified umpire. If you wish to renew your qualification, see the Basic Umpiring Requirements page for details of what is needed to obtain and retain a rating, and contact us on adminstrator@laxumps.co.uk with any questions or to request course details, a rating opportunity or late access to the test.

The only people who are currently qualified to umpire are those shown on this website on the current umpires list.

UMPIRING REFRESHER COURSE 22 FEB
Being held at Hardwicke Building, Lincoln's Inn, London WC2A 3SB at 6.15pm
For those with umpiring experience seeking to renew or obtain a Level 1 qualification. Suitable for people needing to qualify before National Schools.  For a map of the location click here

GUIDANCE
for those seeking to qualify at basic umpiring levels and those arranging umpiring for games. See the Basic Umpiring Requirements page for details
PLEASE NOTE that the terminology relating to the various levels of umpire has been amended as from October 2009 with immediate effect.

Apprentice/Level 1 Course Dates set for 2009-10
See the News page and the Calendar for details

Rating Requirements have changed
The new system of rating umpires is now in place. For details as to the different levels of rating and the standards required to obtain and retain each grade, click here
For information about the basic requirements to qualify as an Apprentice or Local (Level 1) Umpire and about the minimum numbers and levels of umpire required for different types of game, click here

New Rules trialled in UK
At meetings during last year's World Cup in Prague, FIL identified a number of potential changes to the rules which it wishes to have trialled by its member nations during the 2009-10 season in preparation for the new rule book due to be published in 2010. The proposed changes have (mostly) been trialled here and a report on their pros and cons has been submitted to FIL's Rules Committee. Those of the trial rules which are to be adopted in the new rule book will be posted here as soon as we receive an announcement from FIL.