Safety or not

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Never comes up in Canadian football, where the ball is never spotted with any of it inside either 1 yard line.

So if the ball is on the 1, and there's a penalty that's half the distance, how does that work?

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch

So if the ball is on the 1, and there's a penalty that's half the distance, how does that work?

It's brought no closer than that. (They also have a restriction on the distance on rough play penalties, which are 25 yards and can take the ball to less than half the distance from the goal line, but only to take it no closer than to the 15.) If it's against team B IIRC there are circumstances in which it becomes an AFD. A score can be awarded for repeated or deliberate fouls by a team near its goal line.

They used to also have a provision that on a "convert" (try) the ball couldn't be snapped any closer to the goal line than the usually awarded spot. I think they changed that.

[jaybird]

Safety or A's ball still?

Both.
It is a safety and A still has the ball for a free kick.