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This Order amends the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1986. It adds Belgium and, in respect of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, to the list of Contracting States to the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, done at The Hague on 25th October 1980 (Cm. 33).