Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) Rules 1991 so as–

(a)

to relax for specified purposes the requirements for confidentiality in respect of the report of a guardian ad litem (rule 2);

(b)

to make provision where the court includes an exclusion requirement in an interim care order or an emergency protection order (rules 3, 4, 7 and 8);

(c)

to make a minor correction (rule 5);

(d)

to enable magistrates to set an order aside where there has been failure of service (rule 6).