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s 111CL

Limitation when a child is wrongfully removed from or retained outside a Convention country

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Volume 2s 90AA-Endnotes
Part XIIIAAInternational conventions, international agreements and international enforcement
Division 4International protection of children
Subdivision CJurisdiction for decisions about a guardian of a child’s property

111CL Limitation when a child is wrongfully removed from or retained outside a Convention country

A court must not, other than in a case of urgency, exercise jurisdiction in accordance with paragraph 111CK(1)(a), (b) or (c) to take a Commonwealth property protection measure relating to a child if:

(a)

the child has been wrongfully removed from or retained outside a Convention country; and

(b)

an authority of the Convention country keeps jurisdiction under Article 7 of the Child Protection Convention.

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