New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILD PROTECTION (INTERNATIONAL MEASURES) ACT 2006 - SECT 10

10 Limitation when a child is wrongfully removed from or retained outside a Convention country

A New South Wales authority must not, other than in a case of urgency, exercise jurisdiction under section 9 (2) (a), (b), (c) or (d) to take a New South Wales 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.