The Judicial Trustee Rules 1983

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the Act” means the Judicial Trustees Act 1896;

“the Court” has the same meaning as in the Rules of the Supreme Court;

“Corporate Trustee” means the Official Solicitor, the Public Trustee or a corporation either appointed by the Court in any particular case to be a trustee or entitled by rules made under section 4(3) of the Public Trustee Act 1906 to act as custodian trustee;

“judicial trustee” means a sole judicial trustee or two or more judicial trustees appointed to act together;

“master” means a master of the Supreme Court other than a master of the Supreme Court (Taxing Office) and includes a district registrar of a district registry of the High Court;

“official of the Court” means the holder of any paid office in or connected with the Supreme Court and includes the Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court;

“Official Solicitor” means the Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court;

“qualified accountant” means a person who is a member or a firm all the partners in which are members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales or of the Association of Certified and Corporate Accountants;

“Rules of the Supreme Court” has the same meaning as in section 151(4) of the Supreme Court Act 1981.

(2) Subject to the provisions of these Rules and of any enactment, the Rules of the Supreme Court shall apply with the necessary modification to proceedings under the Act and these Rules.