Rule 4.13 Welfare officer

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

rules 10.24-10.25 added by Family Proceedings 1993 rule 6
rules 2.71-2.77 revoked by Family Proceedings 1999 rule 19
rules 3.1-3.20 (Pt.III) am. (references to any of rules 2.52-2.70 shatl be read as references to those rules as they were before these rules came into force) by Family Proceedings 1999 rule 20
rule 4.13 substituted by Family Proceedings 1992 rule 12
rules 3.21-3.23 added by Family Proceedings 1993 rule 4
rules 2.71-2.77 added by Family Proceedings 1997 rule 4
rule 2.45A-2.45B inserted by Family Proceedings 2003 rule 3
rule 4.13(1) words inserted by Family Proceedings 2005 rule 82

(1)

The welfare officer shall, unless excused by the court, attend a hearing if the proper officer 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.

(2)

A welfare officer shall file a copy of any written report at or by such time as 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 proper officer shall, as soon as practicable, serve a copy of the report on the parties and the guardian ad litem.