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.