Interpretation
2. In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires—
“office-holder” means a person who holds or has held a judicial office;
“judicial office” means an office specified in section 16 of, or Schedule 1 to, the Judicial Pensions Act 1981(1) (including a City of London Office) or a Northern Irish Office, but does not, in relation to any office-holder include any such office if benefits under the principal civil service pension scheme are payable in respect of his service in that office;
“City of London Office” means the office of Recorder of London (if appointed to exercise judicial functions in pursuance of paragraph 2 of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Courts Act 1971(2), Common Serjeant, or Additional Judge of the Central Criminal Court;
“final office” means, in relation to an office-holder, the last judicial office from which he retires or the judicial office in which he dies.
“Northern Irish Office” means the office of county court judge or resident magistrate in Northern Ireland.
1981 c. 20; amended by section 152(1) of, and Schedule 5 to, the Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54).