PRELIMINARY
Citation

1. These Rules may be cited as the Guardianship of Infants’ Properties Rules, 1957.

Ιnterpretation

2.- (1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say:-

“Civil Procedure Rules” means the Civil Procedure Rules or any rules amending or substituted for the same;

“Court” means a District Court, or a member thereof having jurisdiction, or a Turkish Family Court, as the case may be;

“Infant” means a person who has not attained the age of eighteen years: Provided that a married woman who has not attained the age of eighteen years shall not be deemed to be an infant;

“the Law” means the Guardianship of Infants and prodigals Law;

“office copy” means a sealed copy or translation of any document lodged, filed or kept in or issued out of a Court registry certified to be a true copy or translation by the Registrar or Assistant Registrar of that Court;

“prescribed” means prescribed by these Rules or any other public instrument;

“property” includes both movable and immovable property;

“Registrar” means the Registrar of a District Court or a Turkish Family Court, as the case may be;

“trust funds” and “trust property” mean the funds and property of an infant under guardianship.

(2) A form referred to by number means the Form so numbered in Appendix A to these Rules.

(3) The Interpretation Law shall apply to the interpretation of these Rules as it applies to the interpretation of a Law, and, for the purposes of the said Law, these Rules shall be deemed to be Laws.

Application of Rules

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Guardianship of Infants and Prodigals Rules, these Rules shall apply to all matters and proceedings under the Law consequential to the making of an order under the provisions of section 46 of the Administration of Estates Law, 1954, whether such proceedings are instituted in the Turkish Family Courts, in the exercise of the powers conferred upon them under sub-section (2) of section 8 of the Turkish Family Courts Law, 1954, or in a District Court.