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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2005 No. 1260

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS

The Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) (Amendment) Order 2005

  Made 7th May 2005 

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 7th day of May 2005

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:

Citation and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) (Amendment) Order 2005.

Revocation of 2004 Order
     2. The Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) (Amendment) Order 2004[2] is revoked.

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


A. K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council


SCHEDULE

Schedules 1 and 2 substituted in the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1986





SCHEDULE 2

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
Bulgaria - 1st October 2003
Cyprus - 1st October 1986
Czech Republic - 1st July 2000
Denmark - 1st August 1991
Estonia - 1st September 2001
Finland - 1st August 1994
France - 1st August 1986
Germany - 1st February 1991
Greece - 1st July 1993
Hungary - 1st June 2004
Iceland - 1st November 1996
Ireland - 1st October 1991
Italy - 1st June 1995
Latvia - 1st August 2002
Liechtenstein - 1st August 1997
Lithuania - 1st May 2003
Luxembourg - 1st August 1986
Macedonia - 1st March 2003
Malta - 1st February 2000
Moldova - 1st May 2004
Netherlands - 1st September 1990
Norway - 1st May 1989
Poland - 1st March 1996
Portugal - 1st August 1986
Romania - 1st September 2004
Serbia and Montenegro - 1st May 2002
Slovakia - 1st September 2001
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 to add Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro and Slovakia 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). This Order also amends the date of entry into force of that Convention as between the United Kingdom and Lithuania, as well as the dates of entry into force of the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, done at The Hague on 25th October 1980 (Cm.33), as between the United Kingdom and Belarus; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Burkina Faso; Ecuador; Estonia; Fiji; Latvia; Mexico; New Zealand; Peru; Serbia and Montenegro; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Uruguay; and Uzbekistan. These amendments bring the relevant entry into force dates into line with the dates recorded by the depositories for the two Conventions.

Notes:

 [1] 1985 c. 60.back

[2] S.I. 2004/3040.back

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


ISBN 0 11 072839 4


 © Crown copyright 2005

Prepared 12 May 2005

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