Article 59 of the Consolidated Rulebook is the institutional convention by which every other Article is read. The institution publishes Article 59 in full so that counsel may cite the interpretive method of the Rules with the same confidence that they cite the Rules themselves.
Interpretation under the Consolidated Rulebook proceeds from the institutional voice of the Rules and the institutional purpose of the centre. The Rules are read as a coherent instrument; words used in one Article carry the meaning given them in the definitions appendix; references to “the Tribunal”, “the Registry”, “the Rulebook”, “Schedule I”, and “the Section 29A statutory ceiling” are read as proper-noun references and capitalised consistently.
Where an Article is silent on a procedural point, the Tribunal proceeds in such manner as it considers appropriate to ensure a fair, efficient, and reasoned determination, having regard to the institutional purpose recorded in the Preamble to the Rulebook and the Section 29A statutory ceiling.
The Rules are read as a coherent instrument. The Tribunal is the interpretive authority. The Registry is the keeper of the calendar.
Article 59, Consolidated Rulebook v1.2
Where an Article appears to conflict with another Article, the Tribunal reads the two together to give effect to the institutional purpose of both, and where reconciliation is not possible, gives effect to the Article more specific to the procedural point in issue. Where conflict persists, the Rules and Brand Council issues an institutional clarification by minute, which becomes a binding interpretive instrument from the date recorded.