EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order, which is made under the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985, specifies for the purposes of that Act the Contracting States to the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, The Hague, 25th October 1980 (Cmnd. 8281), and to the European Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions concerning Custody of Children and on Restoration of Custody of Children, Luxembourg, 20th May 1980 (Cmnd. 8155), as well as the territories to which those two Conventions extend.