New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILD PROTECTION (INTERNATIONAL MEASURES) ACT 2006 - SECT 14

14 When a certain New South Wales personal protection measure lapses

(1) A New South Wales personal protection measure relating to a child that is taken in response to a particular situation by a New South Wales authority exercising jurisdiction under section 9 (2) (b) (i) or (ii) lapses if a foreign personal protection measure relating to the child, that is taken in response to the same situation, is recognised by registration under section 25.

(2) A New South Wales personal protection measure relating to a child that is taken in response to a particular situation by a New South Wales authority exercising jurisdiction in a case of urgency, or in the taking of a measure of a provisional character, lapses if:

(a) a measure for protecting the person of the child, that is taken in response to the same situation, is taken by a competent authority of a non-Convention country, and

(b) the measure is recognised under New South Wales law or under the law of another State or of a Territory.