(1) The following provisions apply to rules of court relating to -

(a) financial restrictions proceedings, or

(b) proceedings on an appeal relating to financial restrictions proceedings.

(2) A person making rules of court must have regard to -

(a) the need to secure that the decisions that are the subject of the proceedings are properly reviewed; and

(b) the need to secure that disclosures of information are not made where they would be contrary to the public interest.

(3) Rules of court may make provision -

(a) about the mode of proof and about evidence in the proceedings;

(b) enabling or requiring the proceedings to be determined without a hearing; and

(c) about legal representation in the proceedings.

(4) Rules of court may make provision -

(a) enabling the proceedings to take place without full particulars of the reasons for the decisions to which the proceedings relate being given to a party to the proceedings (or to any legal representative of that party);