{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-children-act-1989-rules-1991/article-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-children-act-1989-rules-1991/article-26.json",
  "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/26",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Secure accommodation",
  "text": "In proceedings under section 25, the justices' clerk shall, if practicable, arrange for copies of all written reports before the court to be made available before the hearing to–\n(a) the applicant,\n(b) the parent or guardian of the child,\n(c) any legal representative of the child,\n(d) the guardian ad litem, and\n(e) the child, unless the justices' clerk or the court otherwise directs;\nand copies of such reports may, if the court considers it desirable, be shown to any person who is entitled to notice of the proceedings in accordance with these Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/615",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1395/article/26",
    "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."
}