Section 44Part 4 — CARE AND SUPERVISION
Right of guardian ad litem to have access to departmental records
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Where a person has been appointed as a guardian ad litem under this Law he shall have the right at all reasonable times to examine and take copies of —
any records of, or held by, the Department or the Education Department which were compiled in connection with the making, or proposed making, by any person of any application under this Law with respect to the child concerned; or
any other records of, or held by, the Department or the Education Department which were compiled in connection with the discharge of any of their functions.
Where a guardian ad litem takes a copy of any record which he is entitled to examine under this section, that copy or any part of it shall be admissible as evidence of any matter referred to in any —
report which he makes to the court in the proceedings in question; or
evidence which he gives in those proceedings.
Subsection (2) has effect regardless of any enactment or rule of law which would otherwise prevent the record in question being admissible in evidence.