SCHEDULES

F1first schedule ORDINARY CAUSE RULES 1993

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F1

Sch. 1 (with appendices 1 and 2) substituted (1.1.1994) for Sch. 1 (with appendix) by S.I. 1993/1956, para. 2, Sch.1.

Sch. 1 (except rule 29.10) excluded (1.4.1997) by S.I. 1997/291, rule 3.24, Sch. 3

Sch. 1 extended (14.2.2000) by S.I. 2000/124, reg. 30(5)

Special provisions in relation to particular causes

CHAPTER 33ACIVIL PARTNERSHIP ACTIONS

PART IGENERAL PROVISIONS

33ARecording of views of the child

1

This rule applies where a child expresses a view on a matter affecting him whether expressed personally to the sheriff or to a person appointed by the sheriff for that purpose or provided by the child in writing.

2

The sheriff, or the person appointed by the sheriff, shall record the views of the child in writing; and the sheriff may direct that such views, and any written views, given by a child shall–

a

be sealed in an envelope marked “Views of the child confidential”;

b

be kept in the court process without being recorded in the inventory of process;

c

be available to a sheriff only;

d

not be opened by any person other than a sheriff; and

e

not form a borrowable part of the process.