{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-and-custody-parties-to-conventions-amendment-order-1996/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-and-custody-parties-to-conventions-amendment-order-1996/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/269",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) (Amendment) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-and-custody-parties-to-conventions-amendment-order-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order, which is made under the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985, amends the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1986 to add Poland to the list of Contracting States to the European Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions concerning Custody of Children and on the Restoration of Custody of Children, signed at Luxembourg on 20th May 1980 (Cm. 191). It also demands the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1993 in order to specify that, for the purposes of that Act, Colombia is a Contracting State to the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, The Hague, 25th october 1980 (Cm. 33), with effect from 1st March 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/269/note",
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  },
  "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."
}