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Chapter:

512 PDFTitle:CHILD ABDUCTION AND CUSTODY ORDINANCEGazette Number:L.N. 439 of 1997
Section:10Heading:Declarations by Court of First InstanceVersion Date:05/09/1997

Remarks:

Amendments retroactively made-see 25 of 1998 s. 2

The Court of First Instance may, on an application made for the purposes of Article 15 of the Convention by a person appearing to the Court of First Instance to have an interest in the matter, make a declaration that the removal of a child from Hong Kong, or the retention of the child outside Hong Kong, was wrongful within the meaning of Article 3 of the Convention.

(Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)
[cf. 1985 c. 60 s. 8 U.K.]