The rulebook, answered.
Professional sport buys full-time stewards, retained counsel and review panels. Community sport adjudicates the same questions with a volunteer, a PDF and a Saturday afternoon. Bylaw and Order reads the whole rulebook, answers the question in plain English, and shows the clause it relied on — so decisions on the day are consistent and defensible.
In use today by the Cricket Tasmania Premier League. Built for any body that governs by written rules.
How it works
Load the rulebooks
Upload the governing laws, the competition by-laws and playing conditions, and any local rules. Each document is versioned, so you always know which edition was in force.
Ask in plain English
A club official, umpire or administrator asks the question the way they'd ask a colleague. No clause numbers, no keyword searching, no PDF hunting.
Get an answer that cites itself
The answer leads with the bottom line, then shows the exact wording it relied on, from the document that governs this competition. Anything unclear can be escalated to the association for a binding ruling.
Why it is harder than a search box
The rules are layered
A governing body's laws sit above a competition's by-laws, which sit above local conditions. The answer depends on which layer applies — and to whom.
The rules change
Editions are amended mid-season. What the rule says today is rarely the whole question; what it said when the decision was made usually matters too.
The rulebooks contradict themselves
Bylaw and Order reviews a whole rulebook and reports gaps, internal conflicts, clashes with the governing laws and ambiguous wording, clause by clause.
Cricket Tasmania Premier League
The CTPL was our first competition: a full season of by-laws and playing conditions sitting under the MCC Laws of Cricket, used by association staff, club officials and umpires. Their questions shaped the product — the layered rulebooks, the versioning, the escalation path from an answer to a formal ruling, and the automated review that flags gaps and conflicts before a season starts.
Ahead of the current season we ran the review across 29 by-laws and returned 53 improved clauses. Cricket Tasmania took the language corrections and the concussion wording directly into its by-laws, and held the ambiguity findings for committee review the following year.
“Used all the grammatical fixes and the concussion wording. All the other ambiguity ones were helpful but have to be reviewed so will be something for next year.”
One engine, many codes
Nothing underneath Bylaw and Order is specific to cricket. Australian rules football, golf, motorsport and every other code run the same structure: a national or international rulebook, a state or series layer, then local conditions. We are building for those next.