Explanatory note

This Order (“the 1993 Order”)extends the types of court proceedings in which evidence may be given in connection with the upbringing, maintenance or welfare of a child notwithstanding that the evidence in question would otherwise be inadmissible because of the `hearsay rule' in the law of evidence.

The 1993 Order supersedes and revokes an earlier order (“the 1991 Order”). The only difference between them in effect is that the 1993 Order extends to civil proceedings under the Child Support Act 1991 in magistrates' courts. The 1993 Order reproduces what the 1991 Order provided in relation to the High Court and county courts, because that provision is sufficiently general to embrace Child Support Act proceedings in those courts.