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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-and-young-persons-rules-1988/article-18",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/913",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Children and Young Persons) Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-and-young-persons-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Rights of parents and guardians.",
  "text": "Without prejudice to the provisions of section 32A(4A) of the Act of 1969 or to any other provision of these Rules which provides for a parent or guardian to take part in proceedings, the relevant infant’s parent or guardian shall be entitled:\n(a) to meet any allegations made against him in the course of the proceedings by cross-examining any witness and calling or giving evidence (and shall call or give evidence at the conclusion of the evidence for the respondent and the evidence, if any, for the applicant in rebuttal but before either the respondent or the applicant addresses the court under rule 14(4) or (5) of the Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981 as applied by rule 20(3) of these Rules); and\n(b) to make representations to the court, and shall do so at any such stage after the conclusion of the evidence in the hearing as the court considers appropriate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/552."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1991",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) Rules 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/913/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:06:18.954433+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."
}