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It was unchallenged for four years, before the governing body retrospectively changed its rules, rubbing out Boardman's record and returning it to Eddy Merckx's 1972 distance of 49.431km.
However, South Africa's second-innings total in a 1906 Johannesburg Test has been retrospectively changed by one run - an alteration supported by a surviving scorebook - which would make Dean Jones's single off the ball before the crucial run.
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We can't retrospectively change people's contractual arrangements".
We can't just say: we lost, so retrospectively change the rules of the game.
It's of dubious legality too, though the DWP has a fix for that: it's attempting to retrospectively change the law so that those enrolled on the scheme can't reclaim docked benefits.
As headline cases emerge daily, there remains the difficult legal question of whether rules can be changed retrospectively.
First, loan terms have been changed retrospectively before – for example, the repayment threshold jumped from £10,000 to £15,000 for new and existing borrowers in the 2000s.
Was the protocol changed retrospectively?
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