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Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1991

As Enacted Cited authorities 3 Cited in Amendments 2 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1991/995

1991 No. 995

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS

The Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1991

Made 16th April 1991

At the Court at Windsor Castle, the 16th day of April 1991 Present,The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council Her Majesty, in exerciseof the powers conferred on Her by section 2 of the Child Abduction andCustody Act 19851, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her PrivyCouncil, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

S-1 This Order may be cited as the Child Abduction and Custody...

1. This Order may be cited as the Child Abduction and Custody (Partiesto Conventions) Order 1991.

S-2 The Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order...

2. The Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 19862is amended by deleting Schedule 1 thereto3and substituting therefor the following—

“SCHEDULE 1

Article 2

CONVENTION ON THE CIVIL ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION, THE HAGUE, 25th OCTOBER 1980

Contracting States to the Convention

Territories specified in Declarations under Article 39 or 40 of the Convention

Date of Coming into Force as between the United Kingdom and the State or Territory

The Argentine Republic

—

1st June 1991

Australia

Australian States and mainland Territories

1st January 1987

Austria

—

1st October 1988

Belize

—

1st October 1989

Canada

Ontario

1st August 1986

New Brunswick

1st August 1986

British Columbia

1st August 1986

Manitoba

1st August 1986

Nova Scotia

1st August 1986

Newfoundland

1st August 1986

Prince Edward Island

1st August 1986

Quebec

1st August 1986

Yukon Territory

1st August 1986

Saskatchewan

1st November 1986

Alberta

1st February 1987

Northwest Territories

1st April 1988

The French Republic

—

1st August 1986

The Federal Republic of Germany

—

1st December 1990

The Hungarian People’s Republic

—

1st September 1986

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

—

1st January 1987

The Kingdom of the Netherlands

—

1st September 1990

Norway

—

1st April 1989

The Portuguese Republic

—

1st August 1986

Spain

—

1st September 1987

Sweden

—

1st June 1989

The Swiss Confederation

—

1st August 1986

The United States of America

—

1st July 1988”

G.I de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties toConventions) Order 1986. It adds the Argentine Republic to the list ofthe Contracting States to the Convention on the Civil Aspects ofInternational Child Abduction signed at The Hague on 25th October 1980(Cm. 33).

(1) 1985 c. 60.
(2) S.I.1986/1159.
(3) Schedule 1 to S.I.1986/1159 was substituted by S.I.1990/2289.

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