The confusion arose because the rally organisers initially said the race would be run under the old rules - and only announced the switch after entries had been accepted.
The Dubliner played for England in the 2007 World Cup and under International Cricket Council rules he should be unable to switch allegiance back to the country of his birth until April 2011.
Before making the switch, PricewaterhouseCoopers encouraged its employees to follow some basic rules of etiquette, reminding them, for instance, not to leave uneaten food in someone else's office and urging them to replace office supplies they used.
Pay-TV looks a lot like retail banking: competition is weak not because the rules need rewriting but because customers are reluctant to switch suppliers.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is said to be considering relaxing rules that make it difficult for a company to switch auditors should one of the Big Four fail.
If a firm prefers another state's rules, it can ask its shareholders to approve a switch.
The Frenchman also persuaded the Tottenham Hotspur striker, Frederic Kanoute, and Valencia's Mohamed Lamine Sissoko to switch national allegiances to play for the Eagles after a change in Fifa rules on international eligibility.
The rules of FIFA, soccer's world governing body, allow for players to switch their allegiances as long as they have yet to play a tournament match for the senior national team.
Would licence fees change, would the rules on what could and could not be listened to alter, would CBS simply switch the service off and try to transition them to something almost, but not quite, the same?
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In other words, once customers switch from one cable service provider to another, they become captives of the new company that can change the rules on them.
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