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Sesse__ 2 hours ago

The oldest rules on FIDE's pages are the ones for “before 2014”. They state:

  The game is drawn when a position has arisen in which neither player can checkmate the opponent’s king with any series of legal moves. The game is said to end in a ‘dead position’. This immediately ends the game, provided that the move producing the position was legal. (See Article 9.6)
And 9.6 just states:

  The game is drawn when a position is reached from which a checkmate cannot occur by any possible series of legal moves. This immediately ends the game, provided that the move producing this position was legal.
And similarly 6.9, which governs loss on time:

  Except where one of the Articles: 5.1.a, 5.1.b, 5.2.a, 5.2.b, 5.2.c applies, if a player does not complete the prescribed number of moves in the allotted time, the game is lost by the player. However, the game is drawn, if the position is such that the opponent cannot checkmate the player’s king by any possible series of legal moves.
So it's at least ten years old, but possibly quite more. I know I have a copy of the 1984 rules (or possibly even older) somewhere on paper, but then I'd have to go into the attic :-)