{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-admissibility-of-hearsay-evidence-order-1990",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-admissibility-of-hearsay-evidence-order-1990.json",
  "id": "uksi/1990/143",
  "title": "Children (Admissibility of Hearsay Evidence) Order 1990",
  "short_title": "Children (Admissibility of Hearsay Evidence) 1990",
  "long_title": "This Order exercises the power taken by the Lord Chancellor in the Children Act 1989 to abrogate the hearsay rule in respect of evidence given in civil proceedings in connection with the upbringing, maintenance or welfare of a child.",
  "citation": "S.I. 1990/143",
  "type": "uksi",
  "year": "1990",
  "number": "143",
  "version": "current",
  "date": "1990-02-01",
  "revised": false,
  "valid_from": null,
  "extent": null,
  "unapplied_effects": 1,
  "provisions": [
    {
      "path": "introduction",
      "kind": "introduction",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Introductory text",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-admissibility-of-hearsay-evidence-order-1990/introduction",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/1",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "1",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-admissibility-of-hearsay-evidence-order-1990/article-1",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/2",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "2",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-admissibility-of-hearsay-evidence-order-1990/article-2",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "signature",
      "kind": "signature",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Signature",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-admissibility-of-hearsay-evidence-order-1990/signature",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "note",
      "kind": "note",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Explanatory note",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-admissibility-of-hearsay-evidence-order-1990/note",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    }
  ],
  "has_text": true,
  "pdfs": [
    {
      "title": "Printed copy",
      "main": true,
      "language": null,
      "date": "2023-11-22",
      "size": 123890,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-admissibility-of-hearsay-evidence-order-1990/pdf/uksi_19900143_en.pdf",
      "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/143/pdfs/uksi_19900143_en.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affected_provisions": "Instrument",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1115",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Admissibility of Hearsay Evidence) Order 1991",
      "affecting_provisions": null
    }
  ],
  "made_under": [
    {
      "id": "ukpga/1989/41",
      "title": "Children Act 1989",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989",
      "provisions": [
        "section/96",
        "section/104"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "changes_made_to": 1,
  "changes_made_to_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-admissibility-of-hearsay-evidence-order-1990/changes.json",
  "changes_made_by": 0,
  "changes_made_by_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-admissibility-of-hearsay-evidence-order-1990/changes/by-it.json",
  "instruments_made_under": 0,
  "instruments_made_under_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-admissibility-of-hearsay-evidence-order-1990/instruments.json",
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/143",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:28:54.777139+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}