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The Child Abduction and Custody (Cayman Islands) Order 1997
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- 1997 No. 2574
- SCHEDULE
- APPENDIX B
- Article 26
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Article 26
(1) In relation to a State which has in matters of custody two or more systems of law of territorial application—
(a)reference to the law of a person’s habitual residence or to the law of a person’s nationality shall be construed as referring to the system of law determined by the rules in force in that State or, if there are no such rules, to the system of law with which the person concerned is most closely connected;
(b)reference to the State of origin or to the State addressed shall be construed as referring, as the case may be, to the territorial unit where the decision was given or to the territorial unit where recognition or enforcement of the decision or restoration of custody is requested.
(2) Paragraph (1)(a) of this Article also applies mutatis mutandis to States which have in matters of custody two or more systems of law of personal application.
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