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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-and-custody-parties-to-conventions-amendment-order-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2030",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) (Amendment) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-and-custody-parties-to-conventions-amendment-order-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis 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).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2030/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:14.019414+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."
}