Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) If any matter in a report to which this Part applies is disputed by the child who is the subject of the report or, if the proceeding is in the Family Division, by a parent of the child, the Court must not take the disputed matter into consideration when determining the proceeding unless satisfied that the matter is true—
(a) in the case of a proceeding in the Family Division, on the balance of probabilities; or
(b) in the case of a proceeding in the Criminal Division, beyond reasonable doubt.
(2) If—
(a) a report to which this Part applies, or any part of it, is disputed by the child who is the subject of the report or, if the proceeding is in the Family Division, by a parent of the child; and
(b) the author of the report does not attend the hearing of the proceeding despite having been required to attend under section 550(1)—
the Court must not take the report or the part in dispute into consideration when determining the proceeding unless the child or parent (as the case requires) consents to the report or the part in dispute being admitted into evidence.