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player & ball
outside plane-of-touch

 

scenario 5

Red player punts the ball from outside his own 22m area and the ball crosses the touch-line on the full. A blue opponent standing in touch leaps in the air, and slaps the ball back in to the field-of-play and then lands in touch.

(a) Is the ball in-touch? YES
(b) Where is the line-out? Where the red player kicked it from
(c) Team to throw in? Blue

Note:    The ball is in touch when it is not being carried by a player and it touches anyone on or beyond the touch-line. The same answer would apply if the opponent landed in the field-of-play.