Article 153
Scope of the Code, Omissions, Custom, Doctrine and Jurisprudence
1. This code governs every subject to which the text or the meaning of its provisions refers.
2 If there are any omissions in this code, the judicial bodies will decide in accord- ance with the associations’ custom or, in the absence of custom, in accordance with rules they would lay down if they were acting as legislators.
3 During their entire operations, the judicial bodies of FIFA draw on settlements already established by sports doctrine and jurisprudence.