{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-admissibility-of-hearsay-evidence-order-1993/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/621",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Admissibility of Hearsay Evidence) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-admissibility-of-hearsay-evidence-order-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Admissibility of hearsay evidence",
  "text": "In—\n(a) civil proceedings before the High Court or a county court; and\n(b) (i) family proceedings, and\n(ii) civil proceedings under the Child Support Act 1991 in a magistrates' court,\nevidence given in connection with the upbringing, maintenance or welfare of a child shall be admissible notwithstanding any rule of law relating to hearsay.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c. 48."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/621/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:02:06.360901+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."
}