Question about placement when cue ball is in the way

[acrimon]

When you have to spot a ball, if the cue ball is in the way of the place for it to be spotted, where does it go?

My specific question is for Snooker, placing the Pink ball when the cue ball is in the way.

Would it be placed behind the cue ball (the rack end), in the middle (where the blue goes) or directly infront?

And if infront, would it be touching the cue ball?

[bongo]

7. Spotting Colours

Any colour pocketed or forced off the table shall be spotted before the next stroke is made, until finally potted under Section 3 Rule 3(f).

(a) A player shall not be held responsible for any mistake by the referee in failing to spot correctly any ball.

(b) If a colour is spotted in error after being potted in ascending order as per Section 3 Rule 3(f)(iii), it shall be removed from the table without penalty when the error is discovered and play shall continue.

(c) If a stroke is made with a ball or balls not correctly spotted, they will be considered to be correctly spotted for subsequent strokes. Any colour incorrectly missing from the table will be spotted:

(i) without penalty when discovered if missing due to previous oversight,

(ii) subject to penalty if the striker player before the referee was able to effect the spotting.

(d) If a colour has to be spotted and its own spot is occupied, it shall be placed on the highest value spot available.

(e) If there is more than one colour to be spotted and their own spots are occupied, the highest value ball shall take precedence in order of spotting.

(f) If all spots are occupied, the colour shall be placed as near its own spot as possible, between that spot and the nearest part of the top cushion.

(g) In the case of Pink and Black, if all spots are occupied and there is no available space between the relevant spot and the nearest part of the top cushion, the colour shall be placed as near to its own spot as possible on the centre line of the table below the spot.

(h) In all cases, the colour when spotted must not be touching another ball.

(i) A colour, to be properly spotted, must be placed by hand on the spot designated in these Rules.

See rules d,e,f,g, and h.
Notes, Central Line is the brown, blue, pink and black spot, the line through all of them. Imaginary line of course!

Official Rules, source - Global Cue Sports Centre

Does that answer your question?

(www.globalcuesportscentre.com)

SECTION 3 RULE 7

[snooligan]

The pink would go on the highest available spot. If all spots are occupied then it would go behind its own spot in the first available free space (between its own spot & the black cushion) in line with brown, blue, pink & black as close as possible (without touching) to the ball occupying its spot.

In some instances, if the white is occupying the pink spot and there is enough room between the white & black cushion, the pink, once placed, could actually be snookering the player on his next red (if red(s) is/are the next object).