The Orange Book 2006 is effective from August 1st 2006. A small number of changes were made effective from August 1st 2007 and you can click here to download them in full, or click here to download a summary.

The Laws & Ethics Committee has published the new Orange Book 2006 which will take effect from August 1st 2006 and made amendments on August 1st 2007.

It had been intended to implement the new Orange Book at the same time that the World Bridge Federation introduced a new edition of the Laws of Duplicate Contract Bridge, but it looks as if this will not happen until 2008.  

When the new laws come into operation there will be amendments to the new Orange Book published. Click here to download a pdf copy of the Orange Book 2006 with the amendments included - please be aware that this is a big file and will take some time to download. It is probably best if you right-mouse-click on the link and save it to your own hard disc then open it from there.

Click here to download the Easy Guide Card and Click here to download the new EBU Convention Cards

John Pain
Secretary to the Laws & Ethics Committee
May 2006