The Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 (Jersey) Order 2006

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 1917

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS

The Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 (Jersey) Order 2006

Made

19th July 2006

Laid before Parliament

31st July 2006

Coming into force

21st August 2006

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 19th day of July 2006

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in pursuance of section 28(2) of the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 (Jersey) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 21st August 2006.

2.  The Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 shall have effect in the United Kingdom as if any reference to—

(a) any order which may be made;

(b) any proceedings which may be brought; or

(c) any other thing which may be done,

in, or in any part of, the United Kingdom, included a reference to any corresponding order which may be made or, as the case may be, proceedings which may be brought or other thing which may be done in Jersey.

A. K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 gives effect in the United Kingdom to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (1980, Cm 33) and the European Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions concerning Custody of Children (1980, Cm 191).

This Order provides that references in the 1985 Act to orders made, proceedings brought and other things done in relation to the Conventions in the United Kingdom shall have effect as if they included a reference to orders made, proceedings brought and other things done in Jersey.

Jersey has passed its own legislation, the Child Abduction and Custody (Jersey) Law 2005, giving effect to the Conventions.

(1)

1985 c. 60.