The National Rugby League is set to tighten anti-tampering rules from December 1 with a gag order prohibiting club officials and players agents from making public or private comments about the future of contracted players.

Clubs and agents will face sanction if they contact an agent or player to discuss the future of a player if they are not a free agent.

They will also be penalised if they make public comment that is deemed to be enticing or inducing a player to break a contract, or shop a contracted player from their own club to a rival club without prior permission from that player.

The new rules would not apply to players who have entered the final year of their contract.

The significant change comes after Lachlan Galvin switched from the Wests Tigers to the Canterbury Bankstown Bu

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