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FAMILY LAW ACT 1975 - SECT 111CE

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   111CD(1)(a), (b), (c) or (d) to take a Commonwealth personal 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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