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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-children-act-1989-rules-1991/article-13",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1395",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) Rules 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-children-act-1989-rules-1991",
  "path": "article/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Welfare officer",
  "text": "(1) The welfare officer shall, unless excused by the court or the justices' clerk, attend a hearing if the justices' clerk gives him notice that his report will be given or considered at that hearing; and any party may question the welfare officer about his report at such a hearing.\n(2) A welfare officer shall file a copy of any written report at or by such time as the justices' clerk or the court directs or, in the absence of a direction, at least 5 days before a hearing of which he is given notice under paragraph (1); and the justices' clerk shall, as soon as practicable, serve a copy of the report on the parties and any guardian ad litem.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "affecting": "uksi/2001/818",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) (Amendment) Rules 2001"
    },
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/615",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001"
    },
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/615",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/615",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2930",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2005"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1395/article/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:42:46.444420+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."
}