Rule 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts (Domestic Proceedings) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on the same day as Article 20 of the Family Homes and Domestic Violence (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 comes into operation.

The Magistrates' Courts (Domestic Proceedings) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996^f1 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Rules and, in those provisions, any reference to a rule by number alone shall be construed as a reference to the rule so numbered in the said Rules of 1996.