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FAMILY LAW (CHILD PROTECTION CONVENTION) REGULATIONS 2003 - REG 10

Overseas recognition of a Commonwealth protection measure

  (1)   The relevant Registrar of a court may, on application by an interested person, send to the Commonwealth central authority for transmission to a central authority of a Convention country:

  (a)   a certified copy of an order that is a protection measure taken under the Act; and

  (b)   any information held by the court relating to the whereabouts of the child concerned; and

  (c)   a request, in writing, that the order be recognised in the Convention country.

  (2)   Documents received by the Commonwealth central authority under subregulation   (1) must be sent to a central authority of the Convention country.

  (3)   Nothing in this regulation prevents an interested person from obtaining, and sending to a central authority of a Convention country, or a competent authority of a Convention country or a non - Convention country, copies of the documents and information mentioned in paragraphs   (1)(a) and (b) with a request for recognition of the order.



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