(i) Tie- rule: 

• Overtime is played, following a 5-minute break, if a game is tied at the end of the regular playing time and a winner has to be determined. The overtime period consists of 2 halves of 5 minutes, with a 1 -minute half-time break. 

• If the game is again’tied after a first overtime period, a second period is played after a 5-minute’break. This overtime period also has 2 halves of 5 minutes, with a 1 -minute half-time break. 

• If the game is still tied, the winner will be determined in accordance with the rules for the particular competition. In the case that the decision is to use 7- meter-throwing as tie-breaker to decide a winner, the procedures indicated below shall be followed. 

(ii) Players with possession of ball may throw or pass or dribble or hit or move with the ball or catch the ball with their hands or arms but never with their feet. Both hands (simultaneously) can only be used while catching or while throwing the ball. 

(iii) Passive Play: It is not permitted to keep the ball in the team“s possession without making any recognizable attempt to attack or to shoot on goal. Similarly, it is not allowed to delay repeatedly the execution of a throw-off, free-throw, throw-in, or goalkeeper- throw for one“s own team. This is regarded as passive play, which is to be penalized with a free-throw against the team in possession of the ball unless the passive tendency ceases 

(iv) Throw-in: A throw-in is awarded when the ball has completely crossed the side line, or when a court player on the defending team was the last one to touch the ball before it crossed his teams outer goal line.