{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-and-custody-parties-to-conventions-amendment-order-1995/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-and-custody-parties-to-conventions-amendment-order-1995/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/264",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) (Amendment) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-and-custody-parties-to-conventions-amendment-order-1995",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For Schedule 2 to the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1986 there shall be substituted the following—\n“SCHEDULE 2\nEUROPEAN CONVENTION ON RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF DECISIONS CONCERNING CUSTODY OF CHILDREN AND ON THE RESTORATION OF CUSTODY OF CHILDREN, LUXEMBOURG, 20TH MAY 1980\nArticle 3\nContracting States to the Convention\nTerritories specified in Declarations under Article 24 or 25 of the Convention\nDate of Coming into Force of Convention as between the United Kingdom and the State or Territory\nAustria\n—\n1st August 1986\nBelgium\n—\n1st August 1986\nCyprus\n—\n1st October 1986\nDenmark\n—\n1st August 1991\nFinland\n—\n1st August 1994\nFrance\n—\n1st August 1986\nGermany\n—\n1st February 1991\nGreece\n—\n1st July 1993\nThe Republic of Ireland\n—\n1st October 1991\nLuxembourg\n—\n1st August 1986\nMalta\n—\n1st March 1995\nNetherlands\n—\n1st September 1990\nNorway\n—\n1st May 1989\nPortugal\n—\n1st August 1986\nSpain\n—\n1st August 1986\nSweden\n—\n1st July 1989\nSwitzerland\n—\n1st August 1986\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1159."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/264/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:17:20.788093+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."
}