If an ordinary foul is committed by a player on the offense, the ball is turned over to the defending team. Players on offense are not allowed to push away defenders and no player is allowed to use the bottom of the pool to his advantage. It is considered off-sides for a player on offense to be inside the 2 meter line unless he is in possession of the ball or behind the ball. If either of these happen, the ball will be turned over to the other team. Players are free to move during dead time.
Dead time extends until the ball is put back into play by a player on the team awarded the ball.
Some fouls, either because of the severity of the foul, the intent of the foul or the location at which the foul occurs, are considered more serious and are called personal or major fouls. The excluded player must move to the ejection area until signaled back into play. In certain circumstances, where a foul stopped a likely goal for example, major fouls are punished by awarding a penalty throw to the offended team. Officials do their very best to call the fouls that they can and should. The officials are required by the rules to overlook even obvious fouls in an effort not to rob one team of an advantage situation in order to assess a foul against the defending team.