Proposal: Clarify deputisation
(AI = 3)
Amend Rule 2160 (Deputisation) to read:
A player acting as emself (the deputy) CAN perform an action
ordinarily reserved for an office-holder as if e held the office
if all of the following are true:
1) The rules require the holder of that office, by virtue of
holding that office, to perform the action. (This requirement
is fulfilled by the deputy performing the action.)
2) It would be POSSIBLE for the deputy to perform the action,
other than by deputisation, if e held the office.
3) The deputy, when performing the action, announces that e is
doing so by deputisation or by temporary deputisation.
4) The deputy has not held the office in the past 7 days.
(If the office is vacant, then the remaining items in this list
need not be true.)
5) A time limit by which the rules require the action to be
performed has expired.
6) The office's holder has not changed in the past 7 days.
7) Any of the following are true:
a) The deputy announced between 2 and 14 days earlier that
e intended to deputise for that office for the purposes
of the particular action.
b) The time limit expired between 14 and 28 days ago.
c) The time limit expired more than 28 days ago, and the
deputisation is temporary.
When a player deputises for an elected office, e becomes the
holder of that office, unless the deputisation is temporary,
and/or the action being performed would already install someone
into that office.
