Family Law (Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption) Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1)1
Statutory Rules 2000 No. 3122
I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Family Law Act 1975.
Dated 22 November 2000
WILLIAM DEANE
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command
DARYL WILLIAMS
Attorney-General

1	Name of Regulations
		These Regulations are the Family Law (Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption) Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1).
2	Commencement
		These Regulations commence on gazettal.
3	Amendment of Family Law (Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption) Regulations 1998
		Schedule 1 amends the Family Law (Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption) Regulations 1998.

Schedule 1	Amendment
(regulation 3)
[1]	Schedule 2
substitute
Schedule 2	Convention countries
(paragraph 4(a))

Country	Date	
Andorra	1 December 1998	
Austria	1 September 1999	
Brazil	1 July 1999	
Burkina Faso	1 December 1998	
Burundi	1 February 1999	
Canada — in relation only to the following provinces:		
	(a)	Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan and the Yukon Territory	1 December 1998	
	(b)	Northwest Territories	1 April 2000	
	(c)	Nova Scotia
	(d)	Ontario	1 October 1999
1 December 1999	
Chile	1 November 1999	
Colombia	1 December 1998	
Costa Rica	1 December 1998	
Cyprus	1 December 1998	
Czech Republic	1 June 2000	
Denmark	1 December 1998	
Ecuador	1 December 1998	
El Salvador	1 March 1999	
Finland	1 December 1998	
France	1 December 1998	
Georgia	1 August 1999	
Iceland	15 August 2000	
Israel	1 June 1999	
Italy	1 May 2000	
Lithuania	1 December 1998	
Mauritius	1 January 1999	
Mexico	1 December 1998	
Moldova	1 December 1998	
Monaco	1 October 1999	
Mongolia	30 November 2000	
Netherlands	1 December 1998	
New Zealand	1 January 1999	
Norway	1 December 1998	
Panama	1 January 2000	
Paraguay	1 December 1998	
Peru	1 December 1998	
Philippines	1 December 1998	
Poland	1 December 1998	
Romania	1 December 1998	
Spain	1 December 1998	
Sri Lanka	1 December 1998	
Sweden	1 December 1998	
Venezuela	1 December 1998	
Notes
1.	These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1998 No. 249, as amended by 1999 No. 283.
2.	Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 November 2000.