{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-admissibility-of-hearsay-evidence-order-1990/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/143",
  "legislation_title": "Children (Admissibility of Hearsay Evidence) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-admissibility-of-hearsay-evidence-order-1990",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In civil proceedings before the High Court or a county court, evidence given in connection with the upbringing, maintenance or welfare of a child, shall be admissible notwithstanding any rule of law relating to hearsay.\n(2) In civil proceedings before a juvenile court:–\n(a) a statement made by a child,\n(b) a statement made by a person concerned with or having control of a child, that he has assaulted, neglected or ill-treated the child,\n(c) a statement included in any report made by a guardian ad litem under rule 25(3)(a) of the Magistrates' Courts (Children and Young Persons) Rules 1988 or by a local authority under section 9(1) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969,\nshall be admissible as evidence in connection with the upbringing, maintenance or welfare of a child notwithstanding any rule of law relating to hearsay.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/913."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1969 c. 54; section 9(1) will be, from a date to be appointed, amended by the Children Act 1989 (c. 41), Schedule 15."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/143/article/2",
    "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."
}