{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-and-custody-cayman-islands-order-1997/schedule/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-and-custody-cayman-islands-order-1997/schedule/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2574",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Abduction and Custody (Cayman Islands) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-and-custody-cayman-islands-order-1997",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Recognition of decisions.",
  "text": "(1) Articles 7 and 12 of the Convention shall have effect in accordance with this paragraph.\n(2) A decision to which either of those Articles applies which was made in a Contracting State other than the Cayman Islands shall be recognised in the Cayman Islands as if made by a court having jurisdiction to make it there but—\n(a) the Grand Court may, on the application of any person appearing to it to have an interest in the matter, declare on any of the grounds specified in Article 9 or 10 of the Convention that the decision is not to be recognised in the Cayman Islands; and\n(b) the decision shall not be enforceable in the Cayman Islands unless registered in the Grand Court under paragraph 16 below.\n(3) The references in Article 9(1)(c) of the Convention to the removal of the child are to his improper removal within the meaning of the Convention.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2574/schedule/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:46:41.911880+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}