Article 2 Interpretation

• “a BTDC” means a Bench Training and Development Committee established in accordance with rule 14;

• “election meeting” means a meeting held in accordance with rule 10;

• “first choice vote”, “second choice or subsequent choice vote” have the meaning specified in rule 6(4) and (5);

• “justice” means a justice of the peace whose name has not been entered in the supplemental list and, in relation to a petty sessions area, a justice who ordinarily acts in and for that area;

• “justices' clerk” in relation to a petty sessions area means a justices' clerk for that area and includes any person acting as such;

• “justices' chief executive” in relation to a petty sessions area means the justices' chief executive for the magistates' court committee area in which that petty sessions area falls and includes any person acting as such;

• “the Schedule” means the Schedule to these Rules;

• “the 1997 Act” means the Justices of the Peace Act 1997;

• “the supplemental list” means the supplemental list referred to in section 7 of the 1997 Act^f1;

where a justices' chief executive has appointed a nominee in accordance with rule 19, references to a justices' chief executive shall be read as references to his nominee in relation to the function or functions for which he was appointed nominee;

references to a ballot are references to a ballot conducted under these Rules;

references to a postal ballot are references to a postal ballot conducted under rule 6.