Temporary/Interim Certification

PDI Certification

This would be strictly a regional/ district interim certification and would not qualify a team for the national field trials.

1. To cover a new team attesting to an acceptable performance level until the next regular scheduled certification conducted in the region/ district.
2. To permit a team that fails to obtain a certification at a regular scheduled regional trial to apply to the region for an interim certification test. This interim certification if obtained would only be available one time in the career of the dog and only valid until the next home regional or district regularly scheduled certification.

1. A written request must be made to the local Regional Executive Board to sanction a Temporary Certification with a location and number of expected participants.
2. If approved by the Regional Board, they will designate a minimum of two judges, and one of these judges must be a nationally certified regional/national judge and a certified trainer of PDI . Neither of the judges selected will have any connection to those being tested, but maybe from the host region.
3. This certification will only be valid until the first regularly sanctioned regional certification, but for no longer than one year. This temporary certification for any given team will only be allowed one time during these teams working life.
4. No temporary certification trial will be conducted within 30 days of that regions regularly scheduled certification trial.
5. The Certification Certificate will be on the approved certificate
6. This interim certification will be recorded on the approved Master Score Sheets and all required paper work filed with the National Secretary within 15 working days of the test. The region will also keep a copy of the certification. The two judges' scores will be averaged and that score will be the recorded score.
7. All rules and regulations governing the teams' performance and certification will be as required in any regular certification test, only the exceptions is judging requirements will be modified. Judges decisions are final with no protests.