Paragraph 40 Remit to person specially qualified by skill and experience

(1)

If the court considers that all, or any, of the material facts in dispute in a case may appropriately be reported on by a person specially qualified by skill and experience it may—

(a)

at any time before the issue of the final order in the application; and

(b)

either at its own instance or on the motion of a party,

remit the matters mentioned in paragraph (2) to such a person.

(2)

The matters are—

(a)

enquiring into such matters of fact as the court may specify in making the remit; and

(b)

furnishing the court with a report as to the resultant findings.

(3)

Having received such a report and without further inquiry or evidence, but after giving the parties an opportunity of being heard or of lodging written submissions with regard to it, the court may determine the matters of fact which were specified under paragraph (2)(a).