Article 1 Scope

United Kingdom

This Regulation applies in civil matters of:

(a)

divorce, legal separation or marriage annulment;

(b)

the attribution, exercise, delegation, restriction or termination of parental responsibility.

The matters referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1 may, in particular, include:

(a)

rights of custody and rights of access;

(b)

guardianship, curatorship and similar institutions;

(c)

the designation and functions of any person or body having charge of the person or property of a child, or representing or assisting a child;

(d)

the placement of a child in institutional or foster care;

(e)

measures for the protection of the child relating to the administration, conservation or disposal of the property of a child.

Chapters III and VI of this Regulation apply where the wrongful removal or retention of a child concerns more than one Member State, complementing the 1980 Hague Convention. Chapter IV of this Regulation applies to decisions ordering the return of a child to another Member State pursuant to the 1980 Hague Convention which have to be enforced in a Member State other than the Member State where the decision was given.

This Regulation does not apply to:

(a)

the establishment or the contesting of a parent-child relationship;

(b)

decisions on adoption, measures preparatory to adoption, or the annulment or revocation of adoption;

(c)

the name and forenames of a child;

(d)

emancipation;

(e)

maintenance obligations;

(f)

trusts or succession;

(g)

measures taken as a result of criminal law offences committed by children.