Protection of Children (Hague Convention) Act 2000 (Section 15) Order, 2010

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 682/2010
• Year: 2010

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 18th January, 2011.

I, MICHEÁL MARTIN, Minister for Foreign Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 15 of the Protection of Children (Hague Convention) Act 2000 (No. 37 of 2000), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Protection of Children (Hague Convention) Act 2000 (Section 15) Order 2010.

2. It is declared—

(a) that in accordance with Article 61.1 of the Convention, the Convention entered into force for the states specified in column 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 on the date specified in column 2 of the said Part 1,

(b) that in accordance with Article 61.2 of the Convention, the Convention entered or will enter into force for a state specified in column 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 on the date specified in column 2 of the said Part 2 opposite the mention of the state specified in column 1.

3. It is declared—

(a) that pursuant to paragraph 2 of Article 34 of the Convention, requests under paragraph 1 of that Article to any authority in the State which has information relevant to the protection of a child shall be communicated to that authority only through the Central Authority,

(b) that pursuant to the said paragraph 2, declarations have been made by the contracting states specified in Schedule 2 that requests under the said paragraph 1 to an authority in that contracting state shall be communicated only through its central authority.

4. It is declared that a contracting state specified in column 1 of Schedule 3 has made a reservation pursuant to Article 54.2 or 55 of the Convention, the text or a translation of which reservation is set out in column 2 of Schedule 3 opposite the mention of the contracting state specified in column 1.

5. The Central Authority is designated pursuant to Article 44 of the Convention as the authority within the State to which requests under Articles 8, 9 or 33 should be addressed.

6. This Order shall come into operation on 1 January 2011.

SCHEDULE 1 Part 1

(1) State (2) Date Czech Republic, Monaco, Slovakia 1 January 2002

Part 2

(1) State (2) Date Albania 1 April 2007 Armenia 1 May 2008 Australia 1 August 2003 Bulgaria 1 February 2007 Croatia 1 January 2010 Cyprus 1 November 2010 Dominican Republic 1 October 2010 Ecuador 1 September 2003 Estonia 1 June 2003 Finland 1 March 2011 France 1 February 2011 Germany 1 January 2011 Hungary 1 May 2006 Latvia 1 April 2003 Lithuania 1 September 2004 Luxembourg 1 December 2010 Morocco 1 December 2002 Poland 1 November 2010 Romania 1 January 2011 Slovenia 1 February 2005 Spain 1 January 2011 Switzerland 1 July 2009 Ukraine 1 February 2008 Uruguay 1 March 2010

SCHEDULE 2

Albania

Armenia

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Estonia

France

Hungary

Latvia

Lithuania

Poland

Romania

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Ukraine

SCHEDULE 3

(1) Contracting State Albania (2) Reservation “In accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 60 of the Convention, the Republic of Albania reserves the right of jurisdiction of its authorities to take measures directed to the protection of the property of a child situated on its territory; and reserves the right not to recognise any parental responsibility or measure in so far as it is incompatible with any measure taken by its authorities in relation to that property, as it is provided in paragraph 1 of Article 55 of the Convention.” Armenia “Pursuant to Article 60 of the Convention, the Republic of Armenia makes the following reservations: • in accordance with Article 54, paragraph 2, of the Convention, to object to the use of French; • in accordance with Article 55, paragraph 1, sub-paragraph a, to reserve the jurisdiction of its authorities to take measures directed to the protection of real estate and other property of a child which is situated on its territory and is subject to state registration; • in accordance with Article 55...