48.1 Short Term Loans. Subject to the provisions of Regulation 47.3, Short Term Loan transfers shall only be approved in accordance with following provisions:
48.1.1 A Club can have up to 8 Players on Short Term Loan during any Season, but no more than 4 at any one time.
48.1.2 Short Term Loan transfers shall be for a period of not less than 28 days or for more than 93 days in any one Season. The loan period is inclusive of the start date and finishing date.
48.1.3 The Short term loan of a goalkeeper may be subject to a recall clause (including within the original 28 days) but this may only be implemented in exceptional circumstances with the consent of the Executive.
48.1.4 The Executive shall not permit a Short term loan transfer for a period in excess of 93 days in any one Season save in extenuating circumstances, at the discretion of the Executive.
48.1.5 Short term loans which subsequently become permanent transfers, or simultaneously upon termination become Long Term Loans, shall not count against a Club’s quota of Short Term Loans for that season.
48.2 Long Term Loans. Subject to the provisions of Regulation 47.3, Long Term Loan transfers shall only be approved in accordance with the following provisions:
48.2.1 A Player can only be transferred on a Long Term Loan if he was under the age of 23 on the 30th June prior to the Season in which the Long Term Loan transfer is intended to take place.
48.2.2 A Club can have up to 4 Players on Long Term Loan at any one time during any Season.
48.2.3 The registration of a Long Term Loan will only be permitted during the period 1st July to 31st December in any Season.
48.2.4 The period of a Long Term Loan shall expire no earlier than the end of the Season in which the Long Term Loan takes place and a Player signed on such a transfer must complete the loan period and may not be recalled by his original Club at any time during that loan period save:
a when the Player is recalled and transferred permanently to another Club; and
b in the case of a goalkeeper whose agreement may contain a recall clause which may only be implemented in exceptional circumstances with the consent of the Executive.
48.2.5 Long term loan transfers which subsequently become permanent transfers before 31st December in the same season shall not count against a Club’s quota of such Long Term Loans for that season.
49 Where a Club has already taken its full quota of Short Term Loan transfers in accordance with Regulations 48.1.1, the Executive shall be empowered to approve a further temporary transfer of an additional goalkeeper in accordance with the following provisions:
49.1 If all the professional goalkeepers at a Club are certified by an independent medical practitioner as being unfit to play, a Club may register (either before or after the deadline laid down in Regulation 37.4) a further goalkeeper on loan.
49.2 The Executive shall allow a Club to sign such a goalkeeper for a period of 7 days (notwithstanding the provisions of Regulation 48.1.2), inclusive of the start and finishing date.
49.3 Any such loan transfer shall be subject to the League having received (including by facsimile) the appropriate medical certificate(s) and the Executive having confirmed that the circumstances conform with the provisions of this Regulation. The period of the loan may be renewed for 7
days at a time but further medical certification must be provided on each occasion.
49.4 Such loan transfers in respect of the same goalkeeper may not exceed 93 days in any one Season.
49.5 Loan transfers of goalkeepers under this Regulation are in addition to the quotas for Short Term Loan transfers permitted under Regulation 48.1.1.
