Greg Swann has reassured the AFL community that the ARC will not intervene in a game's proceedings without explicit instruction from on-field umpires.
It comes after the farcical proceedings that halted play during Sunday's clash between the West Coast Eagles and St Kilda Saints at Marvel Stadium.
Rowan Marshall was retrospectively paid a mark on the behind line, only after 50 seconds of play had passed, and only at the second stoppage after the initial blunder.
Swann said the call was correct, but took too long to be made.
"They got that decision correct, but it obviously took too long. It was 55 seconds, so it took way too long," Swann said on Monday.
"Going forward now, the ARC won't do that. The ARC will still do goal reviews (when a goal is awarded), but they won't intervene in a score like they did on the weekend, unless the goal umpire asks for a score review.
"It was a mark. When you go through it frame-by-frame, the ball doesn't cross the line. The mark was right.
"Was it right? Yes. Did it take too long? Yes, it took too long.
"So we've fixed that going forward. That won't happen again."
Kangaroo Griffin Logue was adamant he laid a finger on a consequential goal late in his side's clash with the GWS Giants on the same day, but ultimately, the ARC could not overturn the on-field decision, citing insufficient evidence.
Swann, when fronting the media on Monday, admitted that the decision was not the correct one, upon review from those inside AFL House, the next day.
"In this case, they (the ARC officials) both felt there wasn't sufficient evidence to turn that over, so they went back and said it was the umpire's call," he said.
"We've had another review of that today and you can see that it was touched, so that one was incorrect."
The decision to front the media comes after Sunday's controversy, and the heavy-handed criticism from those across the landscape, who are floored by the inefficacy of technology and its implementation in an industry turning over as much money as the AFL.
One such critic was Zero Hanger's Mark Stevens, who unpacked the litany of errors befalling decision makers at AFL House, on Six Points on Monday.
