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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1111/article-1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2019/1111",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EU) 2019/1111 of 25 June 2019 on jurisdiction, the recognition and enforcement of decisions in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, and on international child abduction (recast)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1111",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Scope",
  "text": "1. This Regulation applies in civil matters of:\n(a) divorce, legal separation or marriage annulment;\n(b) the attribution, exercise, delegation, restriction or termination of parental responsibility.\n2. The matters referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1 may, in particular, include:\n(a) rights of custody and rights of access;\n(b) guardianship, curatorship and similar institutions;\n(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;\n(d) the placement of a child in institutional or foster care;\n(e) measures for the protection of the child relating to the administration, conservation or disposal of the property of a child.\n3. 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.\n4. This Regulation does not apply to:\n(a) the establishment or the contesting of a parent-child relationship;\n(b) decisions on adoption, measures preparatory to adoption, or the annulment or revocation of adoption;\n(c) the name and forenames of a child;\n(d) emancipation;\n(e) maintenance obligations;\n(f) trusts or succession;\n(g) measures taken as a result of criminal law offences committed by children.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/1111/article/1",
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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."
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