Who are the Technical Officer and judges, and who appoints them?

Technical Officials are the Technical Officer and Judges appointed to a match. Hockey Australia, in consultation with the Officiating Advisory Group, may appoint any number of Technical Officials. If it does not appoint enough, the Host and home Member Association, working with HA, must provide enough suitably qualified Technical Officials.

For each match the Tournament Director appoints the umpires (and the Video Umpire if applicable), the Technical Officer and the judges. The Tournament Director must appoint at least two but not more than three judges to the panel for each match. If the Tournament Director does not officiate as a judge, they nominate one of the judges to act as Technical Officer for the game. One judge must be appointed for each match to be wholly responsible for time keeping, undistracted by other duties apart from supervising any scoreboard clock operators.