The Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Rules 1951

PART I PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1.  These Rules may be cited as the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Rules, 1951, and shall come into operation on the fifteenth day of August, 1951.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires:—

“the Act” means the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act, 1951;

a section referred to by number means the section so numbered in the Act;

a rule referred to by number means the rule so numbered in these Rules;

a form referred to by number means the form so numbered in the Appendix to these Rules;

“judgment” includes “order”;, and “judgment given” includes “order made”;

“leave to proceed” means leave to proceed to execution on, or otherwise to the enforcement of, a judgment;

“declaratory order” means an order under paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 3, directing that the provisions of subsection (1), (2) or (3), as the case may be, of section 2 shall apply to the exercise of the right or remedy in respect of which the order is made;

“relevant service” has the meaning assigned to it by section 64;

“wife” includes “husband”;

“court” in Rules 38, 39 and 40 means, in relation to the High Court “court or a judge”;.

(2) The Interpretation Act, 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of these Rules as if they were an Act of Parliament.