ARTICLE 7: APPEALS

7.1The following decisions made under the Anti-Corruption Code may be challenged by the ICCor the Participant who is the subject of the decision (as applicable) solely and exclusively by appeal to CAS as set out in this Article 7:

7.1.1a decision by the Chairman of the ICC Code of Conduct Commissionnot to lift a Provisional Suspension;

7.1.2a decision that a charge of breach of the Anti-Corruption Codeshould be dismissed for procedural or jurisdictional reasons;

7.1.3a decision that an offence under the Anti-Corruption Codehas (or has not) been committed; and/or

7.1.4 a decision to impose (or not to impose) sanctions, including the appropriateness of any sanction imposed for an offence under the Anti-Corruption Code.

7.2For the avoidance of any doubt, no party shall have any right of appeal against (a) an Agreed Sanctionimposed pursuant to Article 5.1.12; or (b) decisions by the Chairman of the ACUmade pursuant to Article 6.8.

7.3 Decisions being appealed shall remain in effect and binding pending resolution of the appeal.

7.4 The deadline for filing an appeal to CAS shall be twenty-one (21) days from the date of receipt of the written reasoned decision by the appealing party. To be a valid filing under this Article, a copy of an appeal filed by the Participantmust also be served on the same day on the ICC (which will thereafter provide a copy to the National Cricket Federationto which the Participantis affiliated.

7.5 In all appeals to CASpursuant to this Article 7:

7.5.1CAS’s Code of Sports-related Arbitration shall apply, save as amended below.

7.5.2 Where required in order to do justice (for example to cure procedural errors at the first instance hearing), the appeal shall take the form of a re-hearing de novo of the issues raised by the case. In all other cases, the appeal shall not take the form of a de novo hearing but instead shall be limited to a consideration of whether the decision being appealed was erroneous.

7.5.3The governing law shall be English law and the appeal shall be conducted in English, unless the parties agree otherwise.

7.5.4The decision of CAS on the appeal shall be final and binding on all parties, and no right of appeal shall lie from the CAS decision.