The Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1993

Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 3144

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS

The Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1993

Made

16th December 1993

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 16th day of December 1993

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 2 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) Order 1993.

2.—(1) In this Article of, and the Schedule to, this Order, “the Convention” means the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction which was signed at The Hague on 25th October 1980.

(2) (a) The States specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order shall be Contracting States to the Convention;

(b) Where the Convention applies, or applies only, to a particular territory or particular territories specified in a declaration made by a Contracting State under Article 39 or 40 of the Convention, the territory or territories in question shall be as specified in the second column of the Schedule to this Order.

(c) The date of the coming into force of the Convention as between the United Kingdom and any State or territory so specified shall be as specified in the third column of the Schedule to this Order.

N.H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2

SCHEDULE 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 Bahamas	—	1st January 1994
Bosnia-Hercegovina	—	7th April 1992
Croatia	—	1st December 1991
Macedonia	—	1st December 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which is made under the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985, and which supplements the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1986(2), specifies for the purposes of that Act Contracting States to the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, The Hague, 25th October 1980, as well as the territories to which that Convention extends.

(1)

1985 c. 60.

(2)

S.I. 1986/1159. Schedule 1 of S.I. 1986/1159 was substituted by S.I. 1993/1573.