Role of child representative
25B.—(1)  Where the Court requires a child to attend before the Court for the purposes of resolving any issue involving the custody or welfare of the child, the Court may order a child representative to be present in Court during such attendance.
(2)  The child representative must act in what the child representative believes to be in the best interests of the child.
(3)  Subject to paragraph (2) and unless the Court otherwise directs, the child representative must, as far as possible and to the best of the child representative’s ability —
(a)assist the child in expressing the child’s view to the Court fully and accurately, and free from the influence of any person; and
(b)bring to the Court’s attention any matters or evidence relevant to advancing the interests of the child that the child representative is aware or cognizant of, having regard to the child representative’s training or experience in matters relating to child welfare.
[S 639/2018 wef 22/10/2018]