At its meeting held in Kansas City in March 2017, the WBF Management Committee approved the 2017 Laws of Duplicate Bridge for publication and use.

The new Laws will be in force for the WBF World Teams Championships in Lyon and for the EBL Championships in Montecatini.

NBOs may decide when to implement them, as long as this is done no later than 30th September 2017.

The individual Laws, in pdf format, with a comparison to the 2007 Laws, can be found by clicking here, but very shortly a complete version, in both Word and PDF will be published and available for download. This will include the highlights showing the changes and a further version without highlights will also be available.