Article 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Rules may be cited as the Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 5th December 2005.

In these Rules a reference to a rule or Appendix by number alone is a reference to the rule or Appendix so numbered in the Family Proceedings Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996^f1 (“the 1996 Rules”) and a form referred to by letter and number means the form so designated in Appendix 1 to those Rules.