The latest version of the Competition Rules was approved by the SCCBA Management Committee (MC) meeting on March 22nd, 2024.

The most recent changes are :-

• as well as competitors being members of the SCCBA, they must also have Sussex as their county of allegiance to play in the principal Sussex championship competitions, i.e. Sussex Pairs and Championship Teams (approved by March 22nd, 2024 MC meeting);
• freedom to add team members in 'heat plus final' competitions; posting results of online heats; addition of limits on vaping; updated list of those authorised to give rulings; addition of detail for Mixed Heats for the David Pavey; added detail of the target when deciding qualifiers for finals/semifinals (approved by July 14th, 2023 MC meeting);
• dates and times of club heats to be notified to the web-site manager 'as soon as practicable' rather than 'by the end of June' (approved by October 1st, 2021 MC meeting);
• provision for the cessation of the SCCBA Yearbook (approved by July 30th, 2021 MC meeting);
• provision for on-line events  (approved by June 4th, 2021 MC meeting);
• arrangements for matches at 'half-way locations' (approved by November 30th, 2018 MC meeting);
• the inclusion of details (in new Appendix E) of how qualifiers and reserves from heats of SCCBA competitions are determined (approved by August 17th, 2018 MC meeting);
• the requirements affecting attendance at club heats are now not relevant to all Sussex Simultaneous Pairs events (approved by March 16th, 2018 MC meeting);
• the incorporation of updated guidance from the EBU together with some further clarifications (approved by November 25th, 2016 MC meeting);
• (a) lists of qualifiers will always be published on the county web-site instead of just 'normally'; (b) clubs are requested to action lists of qualifiers promptly; (c) in an emergency, the Tournament Manager can only change Competition Rules with the agreement of a majority of Tournament Committee members; (d) there should be no pairs playing without standing in semi-finals or finals; (e) in the list of Chairman's Cup invitees, the Ardingly winners are replaced by the best-placed Sussex pair in the Green Point Swiss Pairs (all approved by March 18th, 2016 MC meeting);
• updated to include current status of Mixed Heats (approved by July 18th, 2014 MC meeting);
• addition of Correction Periods appendix  (approved by May 10th, 2012 MC meeting);
• clarification of entry qualifications to SCCBA events and addition of procedure for updating the Competition Rules (approved by August 10th, 2011, October 13th, 2011 and January 13th, 2012 MC meetings);
• introduction of Mixed Heats (approved by May 15th, 2011 MC meeting).