Article 2 Interpretation Original text. Later amendments are not shown. In these Rules, any reference to a rule by number alone means the rule so numbered in the Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981f1. Annotations Footnotes f1 S.I. 1981/552. as amended by S.I. 1983/523, 1984/1552, 1988/2132, 1990/1190 and 1992/729. ← Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 →