Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order, which is made under the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985, and which supplements the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1986f1, specifies for the purposes of that Act Contracting States to the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, The Hague, 25th October 1980, as well as the territories to which that Convention extends.