Family Law (Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption) Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 1)1
Statutory Rules 2003 No. 3412
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
Attorney-General

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, 
New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan and the Yukon Territory	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.