The Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) (Amendment) Order 2020

Made: 11th March 2020

Coming into force: 12th March 2020

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 11th day of March 2020Present,The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 2(2) of the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985[^f00001], is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) (Amendment) Order 2020 and comes into force on 12th March 2020.

Amendment of the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1986

2

In the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1986[^f00002], for Schedule 1 substitute Schedule 1 as set out in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE — Schedule 1 substituted in the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1986

Signed

Richard Tilbrook — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/1159) (“the 1986 Order”).

This Order substitutes a new Schedule 1 for the existing Schedule 1 to the 1986 Order, adding Dominican Republic 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). The date of the coming into force of the Convention as between the United Kingdom and Dominican Republic is 21st February 2020.

An Impact Assessment has not been prepared for this instrument because there is no, or no significant, impact on business in the United Kingdom.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1985 c.60.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1986/1159. Schedule 1 was last substituted by S.I. 2017/775.