PART VI EVIDENCE

31 Written questions to Visitors
(1) Where a Visitor’s report, or information contained in such a report, has been disclosed to any person in pursuance of section 103(8) of the Act, the court may, on the application of any person who appears to the court to be interested, give leave for written questions relevant to the issues before the court to be put to the Visitor by whom the report was made.
(2) The questions sought to be put to the Visitor shall be submitted to the court, which may put them to the Visitor with such amendments, if any, as it thinks fit and the Visitor shall give his replies in writing to the questions so put.
(3) The court may disclose the replies given by a Visitor under this rule to any person who appears to the court to be interested, or to his legal or medical adviser, on such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit.
(4) No Visitor shall be required to give written evidence for the purpose of any proceedings to which these Rules relate, other than in accordance with this rule.