Article 2 Interpretation

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^f1 (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^f2, 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.