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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2001 No. 3923

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS

The Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) (Amendment) Order 2001

  Made 11th December 2001 

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 11th day of December 2001

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by sections 2 and 13 of the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985[1], is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

     1. This Order may be cited as the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) (Amendment) Order 2001.

     2. The Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) (Amendment) Order 2000[2] is revoked.

     3. In the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1986[3], for Schedules 1 and 2 there shall be substituted Schedules 1 and 2 set out in the Schedule to this Order.


A.K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council


    
    






SCHEDULE 2
Article 3


EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF DECISIONS CONCERNING CUSTODY OF CHILDREN AND ON THE RESTORATION OF CUSTODY OF CHILDREN, LUXEMBOURG, 20th MAY 1980




Contracting States to the Convention Territories specified in Declarations under Article 24 or 25 of the Convention Date of Coming into Force of Convention as between the United Kingdom and the State or Territory
Austria  -  1st August 1986
Belgium  -  1st August 1986
Cyprus  -  1st October 1986
Czech Republic  -  1st July 2000
Denmark  -  1st August 1991
Finland  -  1st August 1994
France  -  1st August 1986
Germany  -  1st February 1991
Greece  -  1st July 1993
Iceland  -  1st November 1996
Republic of Ireland  -  1st October 1991
Italy  -  1st June 1995
Liechtenstein  -  1st August 1997
Luxembourg  -  1st August 1986
Malta  -  1st February 2000
Netherlands  -  1st September 1990
Norway  -  1st May 1989
Poland  -  1st March 1996
Portugal  -  1st August 1986
Spain  -  1st August 1986
Sweden  -  1st July 1989
Switzerland  -  1st August 1986
Turkey  -  1st June 2000"





EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order amends the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1986 in order to add Malta, Slovakia and Turkey to the list of Contracting States to the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, done at The Hague on 25th October 1980 (Cm. 33); and to add the Czech Republic and Turkey to the list of Contracting States to the European Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions concerning Custody of Children and on Restoration of Custody of Children, signed at Luxembourg on 20th May 1980 (Cm. 191).

Notes:

 [1] 1985 c. 60.back

[2] S.I. 2000/1107.back

[3] S.I. 1986/1159.back


ISBN 0 11 038997 2


 © Crown copyright 2001

Prepared 20 December 2001

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