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 accordance 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 settle- ments already established by sports doctrine and jurisprudence.