[Jim S]

A good application of the rule.
3.6.3 allows the referee to start or stop the clock due to an illegal act to use or conserve time. It does NOT require that the RFP be blown at the same time.
We do the same thing several times a year. Someone will make an error and signal time out (normally on a mistake with the line to gain). We don't wait to wind the time back in for the RFP, we wind it (without a whistle) as soon as the error is known (and/or correct the time if appropriate). RFP is a seperate entity.
3.6.3 is, pardon the ezpression, an exception to the timing rules. Put there to cover just this kind of situation. To not allow a team yto gain an advantage by committing an illegal act.
Frankly I think it stands by itself well enough that the "unfairs act" rule isn't even needed here.