{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-and-custody-parties-to-conventions-order-1986/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1159",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-and-custody-parties-to-conventions-order-1986",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Article of, and in Schedule 2 to, this Order, “the Convention” means the European Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions concerning Custody of Children and on the Restoration of Custody of Children which was signed in Luxembourg on 20th May 1980.\n(2) (a) The Contracting States to the Convention shall be as specified in the first column of Schedule 2 to this Order.\n(b) Where the Convention applies, or applies only, to a particular territory or particular territories specified by a Contracting State under Article 24 or 25 of the Convention, the territory or territories in question shall be as specified in the second column of Schedule 2 to this Order.\n(c) The date of the coming into force of the Convention as between the United Kingdom and any State or territory so specified shall be as specified in the third column of Schedule 2 to this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1159/article/3",
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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."
}