Family Law (Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption) Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 1)1
I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, 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 18 December 2003
P. M. JEFFERY
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command
PHILIP RUDDOCK
1 Name of Regulations
These Regulations are the Family Law (Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption) Amendment Regulations 2003 (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
(regulation 4)
Country | Date |
Albania | 1 January 2001 |
Andorra | 1 December 1998 |
Austria | 1 September 1999 |
Bolivia | 1 July 2002 |
Brazil | 1 July 1999 |
Bulgaria | 1 September 2002 |
Burkina Faso | 1 December 1998 |
Burundi | 1 February 1999 |
Canada — in relation only to the following Provinces and Territories: |
|
(a) Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, | 1 December 1998 |
(b) Northwest Territories | 1 April 2000 |
(c) Nova Scotia | 1 October 1999 |
(d) Nunavut | 1 September 2001 |
(e) Ontario | 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 (other than Faroe Islands and Greenland) | 1 December 1998 |
Ecuador | 1 December 1998 |
El Salvador | 1 March 1999 |
Estonia | 1 June 2002 |
Finland | 1 December 1998 |
France (other than the overseas territories) | 1 December 1998 |
Georgia | 1 August 1999 |
Germany | 1 March 2002 |
Iceland | 15 August 2000 |
Israel | 1 June 1999 |
Italy | 1 May 2000 |
Latvia | 1 December 2002 |
Lithuania | 1 December 1998 |
Luxembourg | 1 November 2002 |
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 |
Slovakia | 1 October 2001 |
Slovenia | 1 May 2002 |
Spain | 1 December 1998 |
Sri Lanka | 1 December 1998 |
Sweden | 1 December 1998 |
Switzerland | 1 January 2003 |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland — extended to the following territory: | 1 June 2003 |
(a) the Isle of Man | 1 November 2003 |
Venezuela | 1 December 1998 |
Notes
1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1998 No. 249, as amended by 1999 No. 283; 2000 No. 312.
2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 December 2003.