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1975 No. 423
MAINTENANCE OF DEPENDANTS
The Recovery Abroad of Maintenance (Convention Countries) Order 1975
Made
18th March 1975
Coming into Operation
12th April 1975
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 18th day of March 1975
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 25(1) of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-
1. This Order may be cited as the Recovery Abroad of Maintenance (Convention Countries) Order 1975 and shall come into operation on 12th April 1975.
2. The countries and territories specified in the Schedule to this Order, being countries and territories outside the United Kingdom to which the United Nations Convention on the Recovery Abroad of Maintenance done at New York on 20th June 1956 extends, are hereby declared to be convention countries for the purposes of Part II of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972.
N.E. Leigh
Article 2
SCHEDULECONVENTION COUNTRIES
Algeria
Austria
Barbados
Belgium
Brazil
Central African Republic
Chile
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Ecuador
Finland
France (including the overseas departments of Guadeloupe, Guiana, Martinique and Reunion)
Comoro Archipelago
French Polynesia
French Territory of the Afars and Issas
New Caledonia and Dependencies
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Germany, Federal Republic of, and Berlin (West)
Greece
Guatemala
Haiti
Holy See
Hungary
Israel
Italy
Luxembourg
Monaco
Morocco
Netherlands (Kingdom in Europe and Netherlands Antilles)
Niger
Norway
Pakistan
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Tunisia
Turkey
Upper Volta
Yugoslavia
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Order declares that the countries and territories specified in the Schedule to the Order, which Schedule lists the countries and territories to which the United Nations Convention on the Recovery Abroad of Maintenance, done at New York on 20th June 1956, extends, are convention countries for the purposes of Part II of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972.